The Trotting Association.
Last week the New Zealand Trotting Association surprised its friends and opponents alike by granting affiliation to the Metropolitan Flumptou Company, a commercial corporation formed for the purpose of carrying on coursing and racing at Sockbnrn. Affiliation, we may explain, carriea the right to hold trotting races under the rules of the Association, and people who had taken the trouble to make themselves familiar with these rules wondered how the Company could receive privileges specially reserved for trotting and racing Clubs. However, the affiliation appears to have been the result of a hurried vote, and at a meeting of the Association held on Tuesday evening, ' notice was given of a motion to reßCind the irregular resolution. As the matter is aul judice, bo to speak, we shall not dißCuss it at present, but it seems to us that the Association should at once make up its mind to draw a hard and fast line by which proprietary Clubs of every sort and description would be excluded from the privileges of affiliation. The Heathcote Club is just as much a commercial concern as the Metropolitan Plumpton Company, and it is ridiculous, as well as unfair, for the Association to countenance one and exclude the other.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7187, 11 June 1891, Page 2
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207The Trotting Association. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7187, 11 June 1891, Page 2
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