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FOURTH SCHEDULE. Clubs which have hitherto held Totalizator Licenses, the Applications of which for Totalizator Licenses have been rejected.

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Name of Club. Number of Days. Reason. Avondale Jockey Club 4 Auckland is well and amply served by the Auckland Racing and Takapuna Jockev Clubs. (Sec also paragraph 10, "Suburban Clubs.") " The Commission is unanimously of opinion that two racing clubs in Gisborne, in close proximity to each other, are unnecessary, and that the requirements of the district would be fully met by granting the Poverty Bay Turf Club lour permits, covering seven days racing. (Sec paragraph 10. " Suburban Clubs.") The Commission is unanimously of opinion that the district in the vicinity of Napier and Hustings would be fully catered for by granting to the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club four permits, covering eight days' racing. (See paragraph 10, " Suburban Clubs.") No appointments worthy ol' the name ; serves very small population. Unnecessary. Appointments in a, most unsatisfactory condition. The racing public of the district an- sufficiently and bettei served at Waipukurau, seven miles distant. Unnecessary owing to proximity to Palmerston North and Woodville. Gisborne Racing Club 4 Napier Park Racing Club 5 Porangah.au Racing Club 1 Waipawa, County Racing Club 1 Ashhurst-Pohangina Racing Club 1 Rangitikei Raoing Club 2 Unnecessary owing io proximity to Marton, which adequately serves district. Unnecessary ; district adequately served by Otaki, Foxton, and Manawatu Clubs. Unnecessary owing to proximity to Masterton and Wairarapa Racing Clubs. (See note against South Wairarapa Trotting Club.) Club has no hounds, and has decided, owing to close settlement of district, to wind up. Unnecessary ; district amply served by North Canterbury and Oxford Jockey Club at Rangiora. This club's racecourse is not suitable- for racing, and at its own request has been granted a license lor a, trotting meeting. Unnecessary; district well served by Greymouth and Hokitika Clubs. Horowhenua Racing Club 1 Taratahi-Carterton Racing Club 1 Woodlands Hunt Club 1 Amberley Racing Club 1 Cheviot Racing Club 1 Kuniara Racing Club 1 Clifden Racing Club .. 1 Unnecessary; serves small population, and district is sufficiently catered for by Otautau Club. Course and appointments very unsatisfactory; little interest shown and no progress ; requirements of district met by granting Lumsden Hack Racing Club a license. Appointments poor; no interest; district sufficiently served by Gore Club. Tenure of course unsatisfactory. District can be better served by Tuapeka County Jockey Club, whose course is freehold and management more satisfactory. These el u bs should amalgamate. Appointnients in very dilapidated and decaying state ; not sufficient interest, and no progress. Unnecessary; district sufficiently served by Otautau Racing, Birchwood Hunt, and Winton Jockey Clubs. Unnecessary; district sufficiently served by Auckland Trotting Club. This club has been in existence many years in a flourishingdistrict, but has made no headway, and has no course We consider if a new club were constituted, with course in a more central position, it would be beneficial to the district, and we recommend that a license for a twodays meeting be granted to a new club to be called the Wairarapa Trotting Club, to be formed to race on the Taratahi-Carterton course, or within five miles therefrom, to take the place of the Taratahi-Carterton Racing Club, South Wairarapa Trotting Club, and Masterton Trotting Club. Unnecessary ; district sufficiently served by New Zealand Metropolitan and New Brighton Trotting Clubs. < Lake County Jockey Club 2 Tapanui Racing Club I Beaumont Racing Club I Vincent Jockey Club 2 Wairio Jockey Club I Otahuhu Trotting Club A South Wairarapa Trotting Club 1 Canterbury Park Trotting Club 4 Total 41