SUSPENDED JOCKEYS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1860, 9 July 1920, Page 7

SUSPENDED JOCKEYS.

TO BE REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL

AT HEARING OF APPEALS,

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 8. Tlio interim judgment of Messrs George Hunter, (*. i’. Skorrctf, and E. A. Campbell, t!ie Racing Conference judges, in the matter of the appeals by L. 11. Hewitt, J. 15. O’Shea and K. C. Hue. jockeys, against the decision of tho Auckland District Committee in suspending their jockey licenses for the lemaindor of tho s ason, in connection with certain breaches of (he rules of racing, it as follows; —When the judges net to hear the above appeals, the secretary of the Racing Conference placed be fore them communications from, the appellants, in which they stated their determination not to leave Auckland for (he purpose of attending the hearing of the ; ppeals, until the judges had decided whether or not they would be permitted the use of an advocate at the hearing. It was stated that the appellants considered their pow rs inadequate to represent their cases pioporly at the bearing. It, has not been the practice hitherto to allow/ counsel to represent either party at the bearing of appeals hj fore the judges appointed by the president of the Racing Conference. The present judges arc of opinion that tho practice lias been a proper and salutary one, and neither party has suffered by its adoption, in having his rase adequately presented and carefully considered by the judges. They are loth to depart from this well-recognised procedure, and do so upon tho distinct understanding that it shall not form a pieced'nt for the procedure of hearing further appeals. They have decided in these cases to permit the appellants to be represeiitd by counsel at the hearing of these appeals, for the sole mnson that in th l ' abnormal conditions which have arisen, thev desire to make it impossible for any suggestion to bo made that the app'lHnls were unable to adequately present their eases before them. Tho judges wish to make it clear that the conns-1 permitted to appear must be a bar-rist-T or solicitor of the Supreme Court, reprev'nting only the appellants, and the bearing will be confined strictly lo the ones tion whether the appellants, or any of tin m, have hg'U) rightly adjudged to have committed the offences against die Miles of rap'ii", die subject of the above decisions, and have Ivon lightly punished for T'eh offences. It follows (mm the permission "iven to flm appellants to bo represented by counsel that tho ’ respondents will have a similar right. The henrin" of the appeals will. th"i'‘fore, he nilionrned to Wednesday, the gist July, at Iff-VI a.m., at, Hie A'-oi.nt-a”ts’ Chambers, Johnston street, Wellington.