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306. Our specific recommendations, district by district, are as follows: Southland.-—We recommend the grant of—(a) Two additional totalizator days to Invercargill Trotting Club. (Ib) An additional totalizator day to each of the following existing totalizator clubs : Gore, Winton, and Wyndham. (c) One totalizator day to the new club at Wairio. Otago.—We recommend the grant of a totalizator day to the existing non-totalizator club at Roxburgh. The grant is recommended to Roxburgh in preference to Alexandra by reason of the fact that the non-totalizator meetings at Roxburgh to date have been confined strictly to trotting events, whereas at Alexandra the events have been mixed, with a preponderance in favour of galloping. The club at Roxburgh should accept as original members all the members of the Alexandra Club, and the combined club, with its augmented membership, should be regarded as conducting an essentially Central Otago meeting. We also recommend the grant of an additional day to the Oamaru Trotting Club. Canterbury.—(l) We recommend the grant of—{a) An additional day to each of the following existing totalizator clubs : Timaru, Ashburton, and Methven. (b) One totalizator day to each of the present non-totalizator clubs at Waimate and Geraldine. (c) One totalizator day to the club at Rangiora. (2) We also recommend that the licence now enjoyed by the Cheviot Trotting Club be no longer issued to that club, but that a licence for a further day additional to the day mentioned above be allotted to the trotting club at Rangiora to enable it to hold one two-day meeting or two one-day meetings in each year. Marlborough.—We recommend that the day at present held by the Kaikoura Trotting Club be transferred to the Marlborough Trotting Club to enable the latter to hold one two-day meeting. Wellington. —We recommend the grant of a totalizator licence for one day to the trotting club at Otaki. Taranaki. —We recommend the grant of a licence for an additional day to the Taranaki Trotting Club. Auckland.—We recommend the grant of—(a) A licence for an additional day to the Waikato Trotting Club to enable it to hold two two-day meetings. (b) A licence for an additional day to the Cambridge Trotting Club. (c) A licence for one day to the newly formed trotting club at » Te Awamutu.