COUNTRY RACING CLUBS
WARTIME PERMITS FAVOURED EXAMPLE OF MATAMATA WELLINGTON, Friday A proposal that some of the days allotted to race meetings in the towns should be given to country racing clubs during the war was made by Mr F. W. Doidge (Opposition—Tauranga) during the discussion on the estimates of the Department of* Internal Affairs in the House today. Mr Doidge, who said he thought his idea was a commonsense one, considered that by carrying out the scheme petrol would be saved. “Take the case of Auckland,” Mr Doidge continued. ‘‘l think there could be less racing at Ellerslie and elsewhere and more in the Waikato, particularly at Matamata, where there is a splendid natural course.” When Mr Doidge persisted with his questioning on the subject when the Minister, the Hon. W. E. Parry, was replying, Mr Parry said he had enough difficulties now and he was handling them closely. It was significant that some members of the House were saying the country should have more racing yet a number of other persons said there should be less. War conditions were causing a reduction of racing in some districts and the permits of those clubs were being kept in trust until such times as they were able to race again.
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Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21525, 13 September 1941, Page 6
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