TAXATION ON RACING.
COUNTRY CLUBS SEEK RELIEF
"AN INOPPORTUNE TIME."
[BY TELEGRAPH.—SPECIAL REPORTER.] WELLINGTON, Thursday.
A request for a substantial increase in tlio amount of t)io rebate to country racing clubs from the totalisator tax was made to tlio Prime Minister, Mr. Coatcs, and the Minister of Finance, Hon. W. Downio Stewart, to-day by a deputation representing the Sports Protection League, the New Zealand Racing Conference and country racing and hunt clubs. The deputation was introduced by Sir George Hunter (Waipawa), and the proceedings were conducted in private. It was stated later the Prime Minister had promised to give consideration to the request, but he had expressed the opinion that the present was an inopportune time to ask for remission of taxation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19991, 6 July 1928, Page 12
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