HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1443, 18 May 1912, Page 6

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

(From Our Spccial Correspondent.) 4 PARK AND TROTTING CLUB. A special meeting of tho Hutt_ Park Committee was held last evening for the purpose of discussing recent resolutions hi regard to the Hutt Valley Trotting Club putting down a track on tho park. The Trotting Club objected to the following clauses:—Clause 5, in regard to certain restrictions to trainers; clauso 9, that no liquor be 6old on the park; and clause 11, that the committee would not be responsible for tho re-erection of tho buildings. Tho Trotting Club pointed out that these clauses were impracticable, and, in tho ease of clause !i, frivolous. The agreement was drawn up by the chairman and secretary.

Mr. Brocklebank moved, and Mr. M'Kwan seconded: "That the action of the chairman and secretary be endorsed."

Tho mover mentioned, inter alia, that, the agreement embodied the resolutions of tho committee.

3h - . M'Kwau said that tho Trotting Club were asking too much. The.v wore absorbing eleven acres, and wanted a lot of improvements. Mr. Burridge was of opinion that if clause 9 were not deleted, tho Trotting Club would not entertain tho offer.

Mr. M'Kivan: That's all nonsense. What profit could tho Trotting Club expect to get out of the sale of liquor? Mr. Organ thought that the matter should ■ have been left to the Licensing Committee.

After further discussion Ihe motion wua carried.

The Wellington Hockey Association s tender for ten grounds for ten years, for six months of each year, at. tho rate of JiliO for tho first three years, and ,£IBO for tlie remainder, was accepted. HUNT CLUB VISIT. The Manawatu Hunt Club are having a r»n in Lower Hntt this year in place of at Mirainar where the meet tool; place last year. Mr. 0. G. Khinies, deputymaster, paid a visit to Lower Unit this week and enrolled about twenty members from Unit and I'etonc. Tl is proposed to meet at the Uellevue on tlie date to be fixed, anil to throw off at August's property in White's Line, then take :> cross-cmmlry rido over several fences to the llutt Park, and thence proceed to Mr. Augerstein's properly and so home. Mr. lihimes assorts that tho course is better than -iny other between Wellington and Palmerston North. Tho Manawatu pack is in fine condition this

year, having been krpt t <igethor during 1110 oil' season. On oponihk Hay Mr. .T. o'lCocn'c will entertain the huntsmen nnd tiiPir friends to afternoon tea after tho run. hutt footpaths. A deputation of Lower Hutt residents wait upon tlx'- local Borough Council at it? next meeting with a view to ascertaining whether something can be done to make the newly metalled footpath? more traversable. Some residents slate tint it is impossible to walk on the footpaths in some places, and as the road trathe i.s fairly heavy il is somewhat dangerous lo take tin! road.