RACING REPRESENTATION

Evening Star, Issue 19951, 22 August 1928, Page 11

RACING REPRESENTATION

AUCKLAND DISSATISFIED. [Srecun to tuu ' Stak.’) AUCKT \ND, August 21. Wholehearted support to the Auckland Racing Club < in its criticism of tho method of constituting tho executive of the New Zealand Racing Conference was given by the Hon. E. VV. Alison in his presidential address at tho annual meeting of members of the Takapuna Jockey Club, “ 1 seldom refer to Racing Conference affairs other than with words of compliment, but feel constrained to offer adverse comment today.” Ho said: “Members are aware t-hat certain ■’changes’ have been effected placing in tho hands of tho Executive Committee many of the powers hitherto vested in the president. Had this committee been properly representative of tho metropolitan clubs and tho country clubs of tho dominion all would have been well, but all is not well. Far from it. Had Sir Georgo Clifford been in his accustomed place at tho recent conference meeting I, feel confident the regrettable episode upon which the president of tho Auckland Racing Club lias forcibly and with good reason expressed himself would not have been permitted to occur. I allude, of course, to the circumstance that upon this committee nominees of the metropolitan clubs of Canterbury, Wellington, Dunedin, and oven Southland and Hawke’s Bay, have found seats, to tho total exclusion of tho Auckland racing clubs. What was done constitutes a deliberate affront and indignity to Auckland. and reflects anything but credit upon those responsible. Inexcusable impropriety of this kind tends to create a feeling of hostility towards the Now Zealand Racing Conference, which, if not overcome, must inevitably lead to disintegration and disunity, a condition of racing affairs which wo should all deeply deploro and which the conference representatives should exercise their best endeavours to avoid.”