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319. Mahia Hunt Club. —This club also seems to need the services of a paid huntsman. The case submitted to us merely suggests to us for the rest, that it needs some further finance. 320. Ofiotiki Hunt Club—This club has been subsisting on a contribution of £IOO a year granted to it by the Bay of Plenty Racing Club in 1936. It appears from the case submitted that it wants some assurance that it will continue to enjoy an income of this amount. Doubtless, however, it wants something by way of further income. Meantime, it also wants an additional pack of hounds. The last pack and the kennels for them cost them £3OO. It has £666 in hand. 321. Maramarua Hunt Club. —Since 1942 this club has had an income of £250 a year from the Auckland Racing Club, but that contribution has now ceased. Incidentally, the Auckland Racing Club contributed £IOO to the Poverty Bay Hunt Club in 1943 and £250 in 1944 and again in 1945. These contributions were made presumably by arrangement with the Pakuranga Hunt Club, to which club the Maramarua Club attributes the benefaction enjoyed by it. The Maramarua Club is in debt to an extent of from £1,400 to £1,500 in respect of the property bought by it. It appears, therefore, to be in need of an income sufficient to insure the discharge within a reasonable time of its capital liabilities, together with enough to assure it of an income of from £SOO to £6OO a year. 322. Wairarapa Hunt Club. —No details of the financial position or needs of this club "were submitted, but the general indication was that it needs some augmented income beyond subscriptions and contributions to maintain its undertaking and to expand. The annual sum required would hot be, it is thought, greater than that required by Maramarua, leaving out of account the income which the latter club needs as a means of discharging its capital indebtedness. 323. Upon the whole, therefore, the five applicant clubs do not, in the aggregate, need an income in excess of £3,000 to £4,000 a year; this income, it is thought, could easily be provided from the excess income of those clubs which already enjoy totalizator permits. The Pakuranga Hunt Club alone is able to bear a substantial part of this burden, as the history of its relationship with the Auckland Racing Club shows. 324. When a totalizator permit was first granted the club was allowed to race at Ellerslie free of charge. This was in the 1919-20 season. In 1925 a new arrangement was made whereby the hunt club took up to £1,500 of the profits from the meeting : the Auckland Racing Club took any balance. No charge was made for the use of ihe course. This arrangement enured from 1925 to 1945. It did not