THE FOXTON RACECOURSE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1768, 22 December 1917, Page 3

THE FOXTON RACECOURSE.

The public meeting convened for the purpose of receiving the annual report and balance-sheet of the Manawatn (Foxton) Racecourse Trustees, and held in the Racing Club office on Thursday afternoon, was attended by only half a dozen people. The Trustees submitted the following report, which was adopted: —; “The balance to credit on March 31st, 1917, was £22 3s 7d, after paying for Mr T. F. Martin’s opinion and cost of survey. There is one year’s rent due, which is the last to he received under the present lease, which expires on August 31st, 1018. The Trustees have been endeavouring to settle with the Borough Council about the road encroachment on the Trust lands. Although Mr T. F. Martin’s opinion was entirely in the Trustees’, favour, the Borough Council would not accept it. To enforce an action in the Supreme Court would have been necessary, and cost about the value of the land, and in consequence, after some negotiations, the Trustees have agreed with the Council to make an exchange, the Council giving a portion of land on the northern boundary of the racecourse of equal area to that encroached on by the road on the southern boundary, hut up to now the carrying out of the agreement has not been completed.” The chairman, Mr Kehbell, said that from enquiries he had made ho understood the cost of surveying the lands to be exchanged would he more than it would cost to move the road, and he therefore now favoured moving the road. A mottion was passed to the effect that, in the opinion of the public meeting, the best method.of dealing with the matter would be to move the road.