CLYDESDALE HORSE SOCIETY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2154, 21 May 1914, Page 8

CLYDESDALE HORSE SOCIETY

ANNUAL REPORT. The annual report of tlio Clydesdale florso Society ot New Zealand, to lie presented at the annual meeting of the society, to bo held at Dunedin 011 June 3, states that the year just closed lias been one of steady progress lor tlio society. Tho roll of members has been increased by. 72, and tlio accumulated fund now stands at £787 13s. 7d. The feature of tho yair's • work has been tho publishing of tho first volunio of tho Clydesdale Stud Book, a record of 2052 entries, and extending to 480 close-ly-printed pages, with seventeen illustrations. Tho" membership of tho society as at April 30 was as follows:— Life governors, 5; life members, 23 ; annual members, 393: total, 421. 'During the year seventeen district, agricultural and pastoral societies were affiliated to tho society. The Wright, Stephenson fifty guineas challenge clip was competed for at tho Otago A. and I'. Society's parade of stallions at Tahnnn Park on September 25, 1013, and was awarded to Mr. Jas. Patrick, Lee Creek. Outram, for his rising four-vear-old "Baron Sandy." This was' the second occasion-on which Mr. Patrick had won this trophy. The Union Steam Ship Company's challenge cup of fifty guineas was awarded, at tho Auckland A. and P. Society's Dominion Show, hold .at Auckland in November last, to Mr. Ernest Short, of Parorangi, Feildiiig. Three hundred aiid eighteen animals had been examined and passed by. Government veterinary surgcoiis under tlio society's veterinary inspection scheme. It had been decided at a meeting of the General Purposes Committee, to advertise New Zealand Clydesdales at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, to be hold at San Francisco next year. According to the rules of the' society, -eight members of the council retire'annually, four from each island. The nomination paper issued some time ago lias been returned, and discloses 110 opposition lo tho retiring members in the North Island. There is. bowover, to bo n contest in tho South Island, six members having been nominated for the four seats. For the position of president, three nominations wero received, but as , one of them. Mr. Ernesk Short, of Parpraiisjj,,, had already nominated Mr. Ale'xaiulerV Hunter, of Hawcra, lie desired his own iiame to be withdrawn in Mr. Hunter's favour.

The balance-slicot at April 30, 1914, disclosed a credit balance of £22 2s. -Id.