LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15465, 9 March 1921, Page 6

LATE NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

(Per Press Association.) ! CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Objections to proposals to increase the number of totalisator permits were made before the Racing Commission by the Rev. Mr. Isitt, who said that he wished Jo urge members of the commission to exercise their powers in the economic interests of the Dominion, and to reallocate the existing permits. The 1910 commission had been appointed with the purpose of lessening permits and gambling, and he contend that the commission had acted against the wishes of the House, and in diametrical opposition to the purpose for which it wasj appointed. As tire representative of a' big city he urged the commission to take away the permits from the large cities.! Heads of big firms were seriously of opinion that the number of racing days was a financial detriment, j DUNEDIN, this day. 1 A meeting of the sub-provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union resolved ( unanimously that the Government be asked to confer with freezing companies with a view to some arrangement being made to secure Imperially-held meat being disposed of as soon as possible, in order to produce an untrammelled mar-j ket for free meat coming forward from time to time. Messrs. W. J. Poison and C. Smith, president of the local executive, were deputed to bring the resolution forcibly before the Premier.