JOCKEYS’ PROVIDENT FUND.

Otago Witness, Issue 3099, 6 August 1913, Page 51

JOCKEYS’ PROVIDENT FUND.

MORE LIBERAL TREATMENT ADVOCATED (From Our Own Correspondent.) WANGANUI, July 31. Speaking at last night’s meeting of the Wanganui Jockey Club, Sir W. Tucker referred to what he termed the miserable pit tanoe “doled out” to many injured jockeys by those who controlled the Trainers and Jockeys’ Provident Fund. Mr Tucker declared that in many cases the amount given to injured jockeys was totally inadequate and. moreover, os often as not was not handed over as promptly as it should be. Speaking as an owner, he complained of the way the fund was being hoarded up, while in many cases jockeys were treated in a niggardly fashion. He said he was aware that the Wanganui Club had control of money, but he thought that a recommendation might be made by the club to call a conference on the matter, with a view to securing more liberal treatment of jockeys. He pointed out that owners were compelled to pay £1 per year per horse towards the fund, and he was sure none of them would object to that, provided the jockeys not the benefit they were entitled to from the fund. As it was, however, the fund was being allowed to accumulate instead of being used for the purposes intended. Mr Speed eaid that the matter had been discussed at the recent Racing Conference, and ; t had been explained by Sir George Clifford that at the rate the fund was accumulating it was hoped that it would shortly be self-supporting. Mr Tucker reiterated that what ho and other owners wished to see was not a decrease in the amount they had to pay, but an increase in the allowance to injured jockeys. Mr Speed ©aid he quite agreed that injured jockeys should receive the most liberal treatment possible.