TOTE PERMITS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 17 October 1921, Page 7

TOTE PERMITS

PROTEST FROM COUNTRY CLUBS

(BY TKLEQUAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 17. Delegates from the Country Racing Clubs' Association waited on the Prime Minister this morning to protest against the recommendations of tne recent committee.

Mr. Bruce, president, said that if the recommendations were adopted as a whole, the system or country Mubs would be wiped out of existence. He suggested that*the Minister of Internal Affairs should allocate the additions to do.untry club permits, but that the fourth schedule, which named clubs from which the commission thought tote permits should be withdrawn should be deleted.

'Mr. Massey said the report must be presented to Parliament, but what Parliament would do with it he could not cay. His own opinion was that the report would have a stormy passage, but by that he did not mean that it would not get through in some form or other.