"A LAW UNTO ITSELF"
"Where a rule requires a club to do something which is, or becomes, practically impossible, arid the club makes an honest attempt to comply with the rule, then the club would be excused if, in the circumstances, the club failed to carry out the terms of such rule. This was part of the statement issued by the New Zealand Trotting Association in fining the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club. £100 for. a breach of the rule requiring a 35-min-ute interval between races. "But this is not the case we are dealing, with," continues the statement. 'We are dealing with a case -where the club advised the association that it was its deliberate intention not to try to comply with the rule, but in effect to be a law unto itself and make its own rule. Whilst the association would like to pass the matter over with a nominal penalty, it feels that it would not be doing its duty by so doing, and, taking everything into consideration, feels that a fine of £100 should meet the case."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 138, 8 December 1936, Page 15
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181"A LAW UNTO ITSELF" Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 138, 8 December 1936, Page 15
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