The Feilding Jockey dub.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 22, 25 July 1896, Page 2

The Feilding Jockey dub.

The seventeenth annual meeting of the Feilding Jockey Club will ba held on Tuesday next. We have been favored with a copy of the report to be tben presented to the members and it is highly creditable to the managing com* mittee and the secretary, Mr E. Good* behere. Tha season was commenced with a credit balance of £311, and closed with £632, showing a net profit on the year's transactions of £421. In addition to this a sum of £89 wai spent m building and £10 for a grass mower. The stakes were increased from £1501 to £1567 10s. Reference is made to the attempt made last season to reduce the number of totalisator permits of the club from two to one, wkich proved futile owing to the well directed efforts of the chairman and secretary. With regard to the recommendation passed at the last annual meeting to the effect that the race course should be purchased! the committee thought it advisable to wait until this year's meeting in Novem* ber, a course which will meet general approval we feel assured. Since the club leased this property, a sum of upwards of £1700 has been spent in improvements, therefore the lease may be considered a very valuable asset. At the close of the annual meeting, a special meeting will be held to consider c proposal to register the club under " The Unclassified Society's Act 1895" a suggestion which we hope to see adopted. The figures in the balance sheet are very satisfactory. The privileges for the Spring Meeting realised £312, and for the Easter Meeting £869 ; totalisator for the two meeting £1964 ; members subscriptions £49; nominations and acceptances L 768; interest on bank account £10. The expenditure was on a liberal scale. Stakes £1567; Government tax on totalisator L 212; rent and rates L 57; advertising and printing 1.84; labor and wages LBS; band L 8 0; handicapper, secretary, and starter L 13 1; luncheon to visitors L 8 1; building L 8 0; and the usual sundries. Altogether the people of this town and district have reason to be proud of this local institution which is not only well managed, but possesses a race course with appurtenances second to none in the colony.

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