ANZAC DAY CELEBRATIONS.
POSTPONEMENT OF RACES.
C.J.O. SECOND DAY.
for TELEGRAPH— ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Friday. The Prime Minister, the Right Hen. W. P. Massey, recently . communicated with the Canterbury Jockey Club with regard to the clashing of their meeting on Easter Tuesday with Anzac Day. He suggested that the club might see its way to postpone' the meeting in view of the celebrations, partly religious and partly patriotic, that were to be held throughout the DoIminion on- Anzac Day.
Mr. Massey to-night received the following reply from the secretary of the club:—"At your request the committee has postponed the races till Thursday."
Mr. Massey despatched the following reply:—"On behalf of .the Government I desire to thank you for your telegram informing me that at my request the Canterbury Jockey Club haa agreed to postpone the meeting which was to be held on Easter Tuesday, and which unfortunately clashed with Anzac Day. I highly appreciate the club's courtesy and consideration in postponing the meeting, and am quite sure that what the club has done in this respect will meet with the approval of the great majority of the people of the Dominion."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16205, 15 April 1916, Page 8
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