RACING PERMITS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8184, 27 July 1912, Page 1

RACING PERMITS

THE O.J.C.'S CONTENTION. MINISTER FOE INTERNAL AFFAIRS WRITTEN TO. PEESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH. 1 .Tilly 26. The chairman of the C.J.C. has cd a lenethy letter to the Minister for Internal Affairs on the subject of allotting two days’ racing to the RangUikci Racing Chib hy reducing one day the number of days' racing allotted the C.J.C. The chairman contends that the C.J.C. caters for the whole of the Dominion in a special manner, the attendance at its meetings being drawn from a wider circle than elsewhere. Hcv also directs attention to the comparative lack of racing facilities in the South Island compared with the North, as only the C.J.C. and D.J.C. provide racing of a welght-for-ago standard. and these two between them had twenty days’ racing—now reduced to nineteen. In the North there is an aggregate of 36 days’ racing He quotes the following conservative re'atlve numbers of days on wt ich s riflly metropolitan r Inbs raced Christchurch 12. Au’kiand 19, Hawke’s Bay 11, Palmerston 9. Wellington 9.