RACING IN COUNTRY.
REQUIREMENTS OF CLUBS. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 1. A conference of representatives of country one-clay racing clubs in the Auckland province passed resolutions urging (be Government to reduce the taxation on Slicll clubs, and also to grant them extra days’ racing in the year. A committee was set up to draft and circulate petitions on these lines throughout the province for submission to Parliament. It was stated that unless these petitions were granted by Parliament the one-day clubs would disappear, several being practically bankrupt now ns a result of last year’s heavy taxation Resolution also passed urging the publication of rotalisator dividends, permission for secretaries of olubi to accept totalisator investments by wire or post, and urging the reinstatement of a railway concession in freights on horses by charging only one way.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 491, 1 September 1922, Page 5
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136RACING IN COUNTRY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 491, 1 September 1922, Page 5
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