SPORTING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 September 1918, Page 5

SPORTING.

CURTAILMENT OF RACING

BY 7SLEGIUPH—PRKSff AbBOCIATION.

■ Wellington; Sep. 27. At the annual meeting rf "the Wellington Racing Club to-day, the president, referring to the curtailment of racing, said it was . significant ' that even in Germany racing still nourished. The necessity for severe curtailment, or the almost total abolition in England, could be understood, owing to the. enormous amount of war work the people there had in hand. The conditions here were entirely different, and, speaking for the sporting community, he was sure, if any good pur- '■ pose were to be served, the total '• abolition would not be cavilled at. > Anyone who gave serious thought to ' the question of the enormous loss which ■ would be caused to breeders, owners, '■ and., employers in the event of ■ abolition, must admit that, so far, no sound reason had been vouchsafed to warrant '. fiiich a step. Referring to the treat- j ment that. the. racing public had re- -; ceived at; the hands of the Railway ! Department, the president said it was incomprehensible that a highly profitable source of revenue should not only be refused, but that the Department should appear to have gone out of its way' to cause as much inconvenience i to the racing public as possible. .