PROPOSAL DEFERRED

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 105, 31 October 1933, Page 6

PROPOSAL DEFERRED

WOODVILLE-DANNEVIRKE AMALGAMATION

At a special general meeting of the Dannevirke Racing Club last week, members discussed a proposal that the club should amalgamate with the Woodville District Jockey Club. The secretary stated that the following was the memorandum of conditions For the Dannevirke Racing Club to race on the Woodville racecourse with a view to amalgamating with the Woodville District Jockey Club:—(1) That the Dannevirke Club be given the right to race on the Woodville" course for all time; (2) that the Woodville Club make.no charge lor the use \>f the course and appointmcute other than the cost of putting in 1 order and ■restoring', the same before .and after the meetings, and making good any' damage thereto or to plant;! (3) that after thel present guaranteed' overdraft bankaccount'.of the Dannevirke Club has: been paid off, the Woodville Club shall have the right to make : a charge of. Vk per Cent.' on the. gross totalisator turnover at the Dannevirko meetings; (i) that the Woodville Club is to have, the right at any time to require the Dannevirke Club to amalgamate'with it, provided that if such requisition shall be made before the Dannevirke Club's guaranteed bank overdraft is paid off, any liability thereunder shall be taken over by the amalgamated club; (5) that the, Dannevirke Club shall immediately, or within one year of the date hereof, divest itself of. its freehold and leasehold property, known, as the Dannevirke racecourse, and all. liability attached thereto, and shall hereafter incur no further capital liability; (G) that it shall be optional for the Wood-; ville District Jockey Club to require the following as conditions of amalgamation: (ii) The club to be known as the Woodville District Jockey Club; (b) the committee to consist of a president, two vicepresidents, one of whom shall be a Woodville member and one a Dannevirke membev, a treasurer, who shall be a Woodville member, and ten stewards, (of whom ] six shall be from Woodville and four from Dannevirke), and (c) the office of the club to be at Woodvillc. ' ' After considerable ■ discussion1:. Mr. Cyril Hunter moved: "That the Dannevirke Racin« Club amalgamate with the Woodville District Jockey Club on tbo conditions agreed to by the Woodville Club. Mr F Selby seconded ■ the motion, Mr T H. G. Lloyd moved an amend-, ment: "That the question of the amalgamation of the Dannevirke Racmg Club with the Woodville District Jockey Club be held over until, after .the March meeting, say, on March.22." Mr. J. Millar seconded. . . The amendment'was'earned 'by 14 votes to 7, several members not voting.