WESTLAND RACING CLUB

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1929, Page 3

WESTLAND RACING CLUB

MIDSUMMER MEETING. As was remarked yesterday, the Westland Racing Club was very iortunate with its choice of day this year to lit in with weather conditions as now prevailing up and down the Dominion. The beautiful day on Boxing Day was followed yesterday by weather conditions under which it would hardly have been possible 1 ■ race locally, so severe were tin.* rain 'storms at times. On account of the weather alone it was fortunate the meeting was limited to one day, thereby enjoying the genial weather which prevailed on Thursday. This conclusion is borne out hv the financial returns of the meeting, 'flic face meeting proved to be the most successful one-day meeting the Clid has ever enjoyed. The. receipts for the day reached the substantial stun of £2420, and the expenses totalled £2040, leaving a. surplus of £3SO. The revenue for the one-day meeting was a record. It was £937 greater than the one-dav meeting last Easter when the profit of £l6O was the best on record for a one-day meeting. The revenue, also, it is interesting to note was only £B4l less for mm dav than for the two days at last Christmas meeting. 'Hie surplus for the two days’ meeting on that occasion was £335, which was not equal t n the profit for the one day meeting this year. In connection with the recent meeting, the stakes were £950, or £2lO above the average for Vast Christina 0 meeting. The totalisator for -the one day was £10,026 as against £12,410 for the two days. In regard to the expenses, the Goveminent taxation amounts to .6806 for Thursday’s meeting, from which, however, the Club will receive in dm course a rebate of £125 which amount has been taken into account in calculating the receipts and expenses of the meeting. The surplus derived from the late meeting will he useful to the Club in that the major portion will b* available to go towards the liquidation of a substantial amount of the Club’s funded debt, and in discharging practically all current liabilities The experience of the Club hist season and the opening for this season, suggests a turn for the belt'"' in the matter of favourable fortune, and if tb<? same good fortune holdsfor the two days’ meeting in Easter week, on April 23 and 24, the Club’position will indeed he greatly improved and all connected with the local institution will have occasion to he gratified with the results achieved .