THE RACING COMMISSION

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10965, 29 July 1921, Page 6

THE RACING COMMISSION

A STRONG PROTEST. (To tho Editor “N.Z. Times/') Sat, —As an admirer of fair .'play and Art individual who loves his liberty and * good horse* please allow me to thunk you for your Wading article this morning on tho so-called Racing Commission. Good Heavens! What is this country coming to when one or two men are allowed to shut up old-established clubs which have done much lor racing during the past thirty to forty yearn? I was in Napier when tho present Napier Park Racing Club was formed, and it was inaugurated to fill a want by genuine city people who had got sick of travelling in discomfort about fifteen miles to the Squatters' Club. To wipe the Napier Park Club out is nothing but a scandal auad an insult to the citizens of Napier. Of course it is fairly palpable to the man of common sense why Napier Park, Takapuna and Avondale Clubs are to be abolished. The Auckland Racing Club cannot accommodate in comfort the crowds that visit the grounds at present, but what a grand advertisement for the Queen City when its big monopoly club advertise the Auckland Cup of say, .£IO,OOO, and so on. But so far as ILawke*» Bay is concerned you will never get tho people of Napier to travel fifteen mile*—and thereby lose a whole day—to help on the funds of any other dub—prosperous or otherwise. The people of New Zealand have practically very little liberty now. They have boon metaphorically speaking keelhauled for the Last eight or nine years. But presently, when the producing class, the mercantile community, and tho decent hard-working taxpayers thoroughly wako up—as they appear to be doing now over Government extravagance and departmental ‘ Vconom y " camouflage— Krhape there will bo a change for tho tter and less • A L’TOCiIACY. July 28th. s