HAVELOCK NORTH CLUB

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 26, 15 February 1937, Page 8

HAVELOCK NORTH CLUB

Should This Year's Meeting be Abandoned? The eleventh annuai general meeting of the Havelock North Amateur athletic Club was held in tho Town Board Hall on Friday. Mr C. D. Panckhurst presided over a disappointing. attendance of nine. The annuai report and balance-sheet for the year 1935/36 were presented and adopted. The balance-sheet revealed a credit balance of £35 14/1, representing a profit of £18 2/1 for the year's working. The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: — Patron, Mr T. Mason Chambers; president, Mr C. D. Panckhurst; yice-presidents, Messrs H. L. Drummond and R. Tapper; hon. secretary, Mr H. Bennett; hon. treasurer, Mr N. E. Donkin; hon. auditor, Mr W. H. Anderson; hon. solicior, Mr W. L. C. McLean; subcentre delegate, Mr W. Lockhead; executive committee of ten members: Messrs E. Anderson, J. M. Joll, C. T. Crawford, J. M. de Montalk, E. F. Leicester, E. Riley, D. O'Brien, W. Warucs, L. A. Meads, and A. Honeybun. The Misses A. Fergusson and M. May were appointed a ladies' sub-cominittee with power to add to their number to a total of five. With the same privileges applying as in previous years, the membership fee was reduced to 2/6. The chairman reported that considerable difficulty was being experienced in procuring donations towards the Easter Monday prize-fund, while public interest in the annuai sports meeting of the club* showed increasing evidence of waning year by year. It was suggested by the secretary that the anuual sports should be this year abandoned, and that a series of dances to commence with the usual Easter Monday function should be conducted with a view to amassing a sun) of, say £100 over a period of twelve months. This sum, it was contended, would enable the 1938 meeting to be held without the necessity of appealing to the business houses of Hastings and Havelock North for assistance in the shape qf trophies and donations, as had been the praetice in past years. It was ultimately decided to call a public meeting, when the proposal would bo discussed and those present given an oppqrtunity of deeiding wbether it was deemed advisable • that the annuai sports should be held this year