METROPOLITAN CLUB
APPLICATION FOR AUGUST 30 PROTESTS BY GREYMOUTH AND NELSON The application of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club to hold the second day of its Grand National meeting at Addington on Saturday, August 30, has not yet been approved by the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr W. A. Bodkin). This was announced yesterday by the secretary of the New Zealand Trotting Conference (Mr W. H. Larcombe). Negotiations with the Minister are continuing. Protests against the allocation of August 30 to the Metropolitan Club, in place of the day lost through the postponement of the first day of the meeting because of bad weather last Saturday, have been lodged by the Greymouth Jockey Club and the Nelson Trotting Club. These clubs are both to race on August 30. Last season the Nelson Trotting Club, which caters solely for maiden and improving pacers and trotters, niced in opposition to the Waimate Trotting Club, which caters for the same class of horse, on December 8 both clubs relied mainly on horses in the Christchurch district and received large entries. None of the horses down to race at Addington would race at Nelson. The Greymouth Jockey Club raced on December 29 and January 1 last season in opposiQ° n b to the Canterbury Park Trotting
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26813, 19 August 1952, Page 4
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