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The business of the Association is the management and co-ordination of race
meetings throughout NSW. The Association also makes a significant contribution
to the greyhound industry in NSW with directors of the Association on many
representative bodies.
Ten Directors are elected by the members by way of a postal ballot. These
ten Directors manage the Association’s affairs and finances. Districts
the Directors represent are: Metropolitan (3 Directors), Newcastle and
Hunter River (2 Directors), the other Districts having one Director each
are: South Coast and Southern Tablelands, Northern Rivers, Western, North
and North Western and Riverina. The Association currently owns the land
and holds licences to race at Temora (1953), Lismore (1954), Appin (1967), Gunnedah (2002).
It also owns the land on which the Muswellbrook Club is situated.
The Association also holds the licence to race at Bulli, Gosford, Maitland,
Bathurst and in conjunction with the NSW NCA conducts Metropolitan Racing
at Wentworth Park. Other Greyhound Racing Clubs affiliated and subsidised
by the Association are: Muswellbrook, Shoalhaven, Wauchope, Grafton, Kempsey-Macleay,
Broken Hill, Dubbo, Goulburn and Moree. In 1992 the Association purchased
a property at Lidcombe which it had re-built and re-furbished for the Registered
Offices of the Association and also to house its wholly owned subsidiary company,
deFax Sporting Publications.