GAMING COMMISSION
INVERCARGILL SITTING
ADDITIONAL PERMITS SOUGHT The Royal Commission on Gaming and Racing held its Invercargill sitting to-day. After submissions had been made by racing and trotting interests. the Public Questions Committee of the Presbytery of Southland and individuals, the commission adjourned sine die. Representations were made by trotting clubs in the province holding totalisator permits for a 100 per cent, increase of permits—five extra days of racing a year—and the Wairio Trotting Club submitted evidence in support of its claims for a permit. The Southland Racing Club submitted that metropolitan clubs should have the right, if they so desired, to delete trotting events from their programmes, and the Eastern Southland Hunt Club submitted evidence in support of its claims for a permit. The submissions on behalf of the Southland Presbytery were along the lines that the Government must face the duty of imposing the maximum restriction upon the facilities for organised gambling.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26471, 27 May 1947, Page 8
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