JOCKEYS' DEMANDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17450, 21 April 1920, Page 8

JOCKEYS' DEMANDS.

< <♦ i . DISPUTE WITH THE CLUBS.

REPRESENTATION ON COURSE.

ATTITUDE OP THE A.R.O.

The demands being mads by the Jockeys' Association came before the Auckland Racing dub Committee yesterday in the following letter from the secretary, Mr. 0. C. Sheaths—

"In reply to your letter of March 31 last, I am instructed by my executive to ask your club to give my association a written undertaking that you will grant their representative, at all future meetings held by your club, a free admission ticket to all parts of your course, that will admit our representative to any place where jockeys go in following their occupation. I am instructed to inform your dub that my executive are not asking any favour of your club; it is a right that is due to their representative, the same right as the laws of this Dominion grant to all other bodies of workers." The following reply was ordered to be sent to the communication :— < "In reply to your letter of the 19th inst., I have been instructed to remind you that the rules of racing which govern alike the actions of racing ctuba and jockeys make no provision for the recognition of an association on the lines of that incorporated by the jockeys, and that consequently, until the rules of the New Zealand Racing Conference have been altered in this direction no recognition oi your association by this club can be expected. You will, lam sure, quite recognise that under the circumstances my club cannot accede to the request contained in your letter, and suggest that your association await the decision of the New Zealand Racing Conference on the whole matter at its annual meeting in July next, when the position will be doubtless carefully reviewed in the best interests of the sport generally throughout the Dominion."