THE TROTTING SPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 161, 10 July 1928, Page 8

THE TROTTING SPORT.

FORMATION OF NEW CLUBS.

WELLINGTON, this dnv

'"It may be well to issue a note ot >varning with reference to the formation of new clubs," said the president (Mr. H. F. Nicollj in his syldress at the Trotting Conference to-day. "This conference will welcome new clubs in any district, because so long us they are well managed they will tend to popularise trotting and provide training grounds for green horses; but it should be elearlv under stood by the promoters of such club: that it is useless for them to establish a club, and then commence an agitation for a totalizator license.

*'\\ e are t«>-dny short of about twenty licenses for the existing clubs, and, until those have lieon supplied, it would only be umler very exception;)! conditions that this conference would recommend a new club for one. We have a considerable number of clubs racing at the present time on one or two (lavs of the vear only, clubs, whose population and environment, conjoined with the enthusiasm and ability of the officials, make them well worthy of an extra davV sport, and we all know how very difficult it is for such clubs to carry on. You will remember that at our gathering here in 1!>25 1 advised vou that ♦he then Minister of Internal Affairs had . agreed tint lie could see no good reason why certain clubs should not receive licenses if they had been available, and your executive ever have this •natter in mind, and will make cverv effort to secure those days for the clubs when the onnortunitv arises."