Sporting

Northern Advocate, 11 July 1936, Page 11

Sporting

Racing clubs seek concession

members to consider REQUESTS

special to “Northern Advocate.” J WELLINGTON, This Day. If we close up one source of taxa'on we haye to obtain it from another. la t is necessary if you are going to alance budgets, and I am in favour of ( doing that. There are factors in connection with racing which might justify an independent inquiry into the whole Position so that members of Parliabaent, if a Bin carae before them, would be able to vote on facts, not on Prejudice. I do not know that I am Particularly keen on the procedure which has been followed in the House °f Representatives when Gaming Bills have come up for consideration.

“Some members have voted according to personal prejudices. I am quite Prepared to discuss the matter with the Prime Minister to see what can be done.”

These remarks were made by the Minister of Finance, .the Hon. W. Nash, yesterday, when replying to a deputation from the New Zealand Racing Conference asking that the Governrnent should consider the early reintroduction of a Gaming Bill permitting telegraphic betting, the establishment of a double totalisator and the publication of dividends, and also that the load of taxation on racing clubs should be lightened. ; The Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, said that at present there were many difficulties in the way, and a national stock-taking of the whole sports was desirable. He said that it was not the policy of the Government that any permanent form of taxation should be obtained from sporting bodies.