MINISTERS’ ASSOCIATION

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6488, 7 April 1908, Page 4

MINISTERS’ ASSOCIATION

PROPRIETARY RACING CLUBS.

A meeting of tho Wellington Minictor/ Association was held yesterday afternoon,, the Rev, J. Reed Glasson presiding. The nseoeiation farcwollcd the Rev. 1. W, Fairolough, several members speaking in high terms of Mr IVirclough o services to the association. , i'ne following motion wob Carried i That this association records its emphatic protect against the. formation of a propnettiry racing club in the vicinity of the city, as it bet loves this typo of racing ought to be prohibited by law. since Australian experience prove* that proprietary racing is dangerous in the extreme to public morals. Ths aesooiUtion also recorded Its dense of the detect in the gaming laws which permitted racing days observed in the vicinity of the city to be suddenly multiplied bv the formation of proprietary racing clubs, and urged on the Government the necessity Of regulating racing days by Inw. , . ■ A w-Hoiv was also Carried urging the City Council, in view of the imminent issue of annual licenses to billiard-room proprietors, to pay regard to the characters of applicants Hlong the lines of the mqulroments of the city by-laws, and fiat no extension of tho closing hour beyond 10 p.m. lie granted.