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AUTHORITIES TAKE A HAND ONTARIO GOVERNMENT REFUSES LICENCE TO NIAGARA FALLS HALF-MILE TRACK. Definite Policy Announced to Be Against Permitting1 Use of Trotting Club Charters for Promotion of Running Race Meetings, Toronto. Ont., June 2S. — The prospects of the proposed meeting at Niagara Falls, Out., never greativ encouraging, are now at an end. The Provincial Government has refused a license for the meeting on the ground, as stated by Attorney-General Fov. of the public interest. It was intended to conduct the meeting seven days under the charter or the Niagara Falls Driving Park ftseoclathT. the control of which lias been secured by William M. Murray and his associates. Some seventv charters for driving clubs having half-mile tracks are in existence throughout Ontario, and the government has adopted tin- definite policy that no tratiicing will be- sanctioned and that they can onlv Ik» used for the purposes for which they were originally granted. If the Niagara Falls proect had "got past. the province would have been dottod with half-mile meetings, and it is the general opinion here that racing would have been ruined in a brief period.
