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IMPROVED AMENITIES FOR RACE PATRONS “With the continued increase in attendance. many clubs are finding it impossible to provide racegoers with the accommodation and conviences which they are entitled to have, and I am afraid that patrons will have to put up with conditions as they are for some considerable time.” said Mr. H. R. Chalmers, president, when addressing delcV'.tes at the annual meeting of the (Racing Conference in Wellington. The president pointed out that with the great shortage of houses and of I office accommodation in most cities iand towns and with a shortage of I nearly all building materials, clubs 'could not put up any case at all for permits to erect, new stands and totalisator houses or to enlarge existing [ones. After all, racing was a sport. Admittedly a great number of people '—horse trainers, jockeys, stablehands [and the like —depended upon it for a 'living, but to the racegoing public 1 generally it was a luxury, and, while [there was such a great shortage of building material, inconveniences must be cheerfully borne.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 164, 17 July 1946, Page 6
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179NO EARLY PROSPECT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 164, 17 July 1946, Page 6
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