THE RACING CONFERENCE.
DIRECT REPRESENTATION WANTED. truss jtssocimoH tklkiuj-"-} PALMERSTON NORTH, July 0. A representative conference .of delegates from the Wellington, Hawke's Bay, Taranaki »nd Wanganui districts, convened oy tho Manawatii Racing Club, mot in Palmerston to-night to consider matters connected with the government of racing in New Zealand. Of eighteen clubs invited to attend, fifteen woro represented, Mr J. H. P. Strang (president of the Manawatu Racing Club' presided. ! Ah- ablo paper waa read by Mj J. Goring Johnston, dealing with the ; advisability of altering the constitution ot the Racing Conference. ' ■ . : *** 77 After 'discussion.' the following r-"*solution, proposed, by Mr A. E. Whyte -Wellington*, and seconded by Mr J. E. Gleadow (Napier Park), was passed:—"That .thus meeting approve the proposal to alter the present jcoostitution of tho New Zealand Racing Conference with the object of giving proportionate- and direct representation to all totalisator cluba, and. that, ,the New Zealand Racing Conference bo requested to nominate j a. committee to draft the necessajry consequential amendments to the Rules of Rae- > ing, and report to the meeting of conference to be held* during January, 1915, in Welling- I General appreciation was expressed of Mr Goring Johnston's paper, whioh will bo forwarded in detail to ail racing clubs. , i
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Press, Volume L, Issue 15016, 10 July 1914, Page 9
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