TOTALISATOR PERMITS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 179, 27 July 1912, Page 9

TOTALISATOR PERMITS.

— ■ ...» ■■■-■■■■■. A CANTERBURY PROTEST. (By Telegraph.—'Press Association.) GFIEISTC3HOIGH, Friday. The chairman of the Canterbury Jockey Club has addressed a lengthy letter to the -Minister for Internal Affairs on the subject of allotting two days' racing to the llangitikei Racing Club" by reducing by one day the number of days' racing allotted to the C.-J.C. The chairman contends that the (J.J.C. caters for the whole of the Dominion in a special manTier, the attendance at its meetings being drawn from a wider circle than elsewhere. iHe also directs attention to the comj parative lack of racing , facilities in the ! ixiuth Island compared with the North, las only the C.J.C. and Dunedin Jockey i<-lub provide racing of weiglit-ifor-aee standard. Mo quoted the following conservative estimate of the relative numbers of days on which strictly metropolitan clubs raced: ChrislchoTC-h 12, Auckland 19. Hawse's Bay 11, Palmereton 9, Wellington.o. ANTI-GAMBLING LEAGUE'S PROTEST. (Br Telegraph.—Press Asyociaiion.) WELLINGTON, this day. An open letter to the. Prime 'Minister (Mr. W. F. Massey), signed by Mr. Aitken (president) and Mr. North (secretary), on behalf of the Associated Antigarablinp. Leagues of New Zealand, apipears in the morning ipapers. They j regret that the Government proposes Ito evade the responsibility by relegating the question of the number of race days to private members, and state that '"when the (bill for which you have promised a clear run appears, we will take the opportunity of letting you and the general public know our mind concerning St." The letter proceeds to argue that alteration is demanded neither by Press nor public, but solely by rlie outcries of interested parties that the number of days is the same I proportion as in New South Wales, that I the tote gives horse owners revenues far in excess of those in Victoria, and that tote investments have reached the alarming figure of £3 per head of population, against £1 in South Australia. The letter also scouts the argument about encouraging the breeding of horses, and suggests that this can be secured by withdrawing permits from clubs which encourage short-distance events.