CURTAILMENT OF RACING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13967, 28 September 1918, Page 6

CURTAILMENT OF RACING.

STEP NOT WARRANTED. [BY TELEGRAPH— ASSOCLmON.] WELLINGTON, Friday. Referring to the curtailment of racing at the annual meeting of the Wellington Racing Club today, the president said it was significant that even in Germany racing was still flourishing.' The necessity for a severe curtailment, or almost total abolition, in England, could be understood, owing to the enormous amount o> war work the people had in hand, but editions here were entirely different. Speaking for ihe sporting community, he was sure that if any good purpose were to ho served the total abolition would not be cavilled at by anyone who pave serious thought to the question, but it must be admitted that so far no sound reason had been advanced to warrant such a step. Referring to the treatment the racing" public had received at the hands of the Railway Department, the president said it was incomprehensible that the Department should refuse to take advantage of such a profitable source of revenue. The Department would appear to have gone out of its way to cause as much inconvenience to the racing publio as possible.