RACING PERMITS.
PROTEST FROM: CANTERBURY. ' [BY TELIGBAPK. : ASSGCIATIOK.J .'■;. Chmstcittthch, Friday. The chairman of .'the Canterbury Jockey Club has addressed a lengthy letter to the Minister for Internal Affairs on the snb-i jeefc of allotting two days racing to the Rangitikei Racing Club by reducing by one day the number of days racing allotted to the C.J.C. The chairman contends that the C.J.C. caters for the whole of the Dominion in a special manner, the attend, anceat its ; meetings being drawn from a wider circle than elsewhere. ■ He also directs attention to the comparative lack of racing facilities in the South * Island compared with the North, as only;theC..J.C. and tiie Bunedin Jockey: Club provide lacing of weight-for-age standard. k He quoted the following conservative estimate of the relative numbers of days on which strictly metropolitan clubs raced :—Cbristchnrch 12; Auckland, 19; Hawke's Bay, 11 Pal! merston, 9; Wellington, 9. ' -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15056, 27 July 1912, Page 8
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148RACING PERMITS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15056, 27 July 1912, Page 8
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