TOTALISATOR TAX.
Opinion of Trotting Board. The Board of the New Zealand Trotting Association last evening expressed its appreciation of the reduction of 1 per cent in the totalisator tax made by the Government, but the general opinion of the meeting was that it was not sufficient. Mr J. R. M’Kenzie likened the sports of trotting and racing to a milch cow which was found to be running dry and a feed, in the shape of the 1 per cent reduction, had been given to keep the cow producing. Mr H. W. Kitchingham said the Government did not realise the risk they were running in losing revenue. Some clubs in New Zealand were in such a position that they could not hold races. “I know cases,” he said, “where members have guaranteed the club’s overdraft to keep them going.” It would mean that other clubs would be dropping out. Representations had been made again and again to the Government without result. “I am getting sick myself” concluded Mr Kitchingham. “There are going to be a lot on the unemployed list,” commented Mr M’Kenzie.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 471, 4 June 1932, Page 11
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