COUNTRY RACING CLUBS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10673, 20 July 1912, Page 6

COUNTRY RACING CLUBS

QUESTION OF PERMITS

AxN ENCOURAGING REPLY. )

(By Telegraph —Press Associafion.)

WELLINGTON, Last Night. The reply givov bv tlio Premier and t>he Minister <.f Internal Affairs to a deputation ?firom the Acihburst Racing Club to-day, .indicates that the posiifciont of country rating dribs-, wJi-ioh Host their permits l as.a result of the finding*! of t'he Racing Commission, uvSM be dealt with by way c.f a private Bill when Tbii'lin'meivt again assembles. Mil - iMVi«s«fy s l aid no' opposition would bo .offered .to such a Bill, providing always' that it .clicl not ovorGtep t'he bound's cf reason. A ly.Srca-g plea was made .by the deputation for tlio rcUiciUitccnent of tJio Club's .pennit. TBie Bon. H. D. B&ll, lin: veply, defended hi : s action in giving the Rangit ikei 'Ciuiib two days' Uac'nig. Ho sympathised wjtb tihe A&bhurt'i Club, but said he could not recede from the ipo ."'lien he ihad takoti r.n. I'll? Premier told trlio deputation that the ea-wt-e of the trouble was the licei:V''.ng of ■boek'nwikc-rs untYr t'h? -amendment it'> the Gsuiniig Act in 1907. Parliament had agreed to the P'lT-pc*al very and a dice;-,; rc-'v.iit was an increase in racing and a very great increase ia gaaiibiiing. While, tiii-0 Govern.mi.i.it had too inteuition of enccuragMig tiro deputation would fiixl that i:.-> difficult}- wlmld be p!.:«'J in the way of genuine eport. With regard to the proposed private Bill Mr Massey said: "So Par ,a.s te Government is coiice-riif-ed you well got a fair rrc. C>f course, ■the fonnt' of the IJbuse often stand in tho way of a jjrivate Bill. Until we ■see the Bill, we cannot premise to support it." Mr Guthrie, M.P., conned Ministers li-hat the ®:)1 woukl niot ccntjin any •till lug that was unfair. A.ll ihsy asked ess that .the form'r. bf -the House would not •be rs;d agwvfc'S Uicui, and that tlio question wculd be made a non-party one.