LABOUR PARTY IS CRITICAL OF MID-WEEK RACING DECISION
WELLINGTON, This Day (P.A.). —“The decision of . the National Government to permit week-day racing in Wellington and Christchurch comes strangely from those who consistently advocate greater production in New Zealand,” said Mr A. J. McDonald, national secretary of the New Zealand Labour Party, in a statement today. “On the one hand we have the Minister of Railways, Mr Goosman, complaining that the railway losses are due to the 40-hour week and yet the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr Bodkin, is prepared to permit further interference with the normal working week by the introduction of racing on week days,” said Mr McDonald. ? A f
The worst effect of mid-week racing. he said, would be upon production, both, primary and secondary, at [a time when there was a need for a 1 much greater expansion.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 February 1950, Page 5
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