SPORT AND POLITICS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 219, 13 September 1923, Page 10

SPORT AND POLITICS.

MORE ACTIVE STEPS. SUGGESTED BY PRESIDENT. (r.y Telegraph.—l'ress Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Wellington Trotting Club, the president (Mr. K. A. Armstrong) said the failure to provide increased permits was due entirely to the late stage at which the Gaming Bill was introduced in Parliament. There was an overwhelming majority of members of Parliament in favour of granting a reasonable increase to clubs. Relief in this respect, therefore, could not be long delayed. If steps were taken to have the bill dealt with early in next session, and sufficient time given to it, there was not the slightest doubt about the result. People in New , Zealand would not fail to notice that a handful of "kill-joys," who had been using all the furms of the House to block , the passage of the bill, were those who were always prating about democracy * and the right of the majority to decide I all questions. If this position continued it was obvious that the sport-loviim- ■ people of the Dominion would be compe e<l to take more active steps politi--1 tally to protect themselves