INVESTIGATION OF RACING
PLAN TO APPOINT
COMMISSION
POSTPONEMENT CAUSED
BY WAR
(From Our Parliamentary Reporter.
WELLINGTON, October 25,
Because of the war, the Government has decided to postpone its plan for appointing a commission to investigate the control and conduct of racing in New Zealand. The Minister for Internal Affairs (the Hon. W. E. Parry) said to-day that the plan had not been cancelled; but war conditions had made its postponement necessary. “The war has resulted in its being put on one side,’’ Mr Parry said. “The Government has at the moment about as much as it can do, without being involved in this matter.”
It was intended, Mr Parry continued, to go into the whole matter of the control and conduct of racing. There had also arisen certain questions of permits and possible readjustments, and in some cases questions as to whether existing clubs should continue as separate entities or should amalgamate. The order of reference prepared for the proposed commission was particularly brief: but gave a very wide field. Members of the commission had not been selected, the Minister added. It was originally proposed that the commission should sit this year.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22851, 26 October 1939, Page 8
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