INQUIRY INTENDED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 236, 18 July 1936, Page 2

INQUIRY INTENDED

INVESTIGATION OF RACING. i . ANNOUNCEMENT BY MINISTER. (Per Press Association.) HAMILTON, This Day. “I can tell you that I intend to have an exhaustive inquiry into the entire sport of racing in the Dominion in all its ramifications to see what is best from a national point of view,” replied the Minister ot Internal Affairs (the Hon. W. E. Parry) to a deputation irom the, Waikato Trotting Club at Hamilton last night. “As far as I can see, there has been no basis on which to work the allocation of dates for racing or trotting meetings, and before legislation can be passed i want to have a basis on which to work.”

The Minister stated that, although it appeared to him that the Waikato Club could easily do with four days’ racing, there were a lot of things to consider. Besides protests from antiracing people, there were complaints from other sporting bodies wlro stated unit lacing and trotting clubs had the best dates available tnroughout the .year in every part of the Dominion, and they had no chance of providing anything on a public holiday without tlie opposition of a race meeting. “There is one thing I will add, and that is that I will not sign any transfer permits from country clubs to city clubs,” Mr Parry added. “In the past some country clubs found it difficult to carry on and have gone to race in the cities, with city clubs clearing their liabilities and taking over their permits. This- leaves the country* clubs without a permit, and I am determined to see that people in the country have as many facilities for sport and recreation as people in the cities.”