LOOKED AHEAD

NZ Truth, Issue 1180, 12 July 1928, Page 15

LOOKED AHEAD

Aldington Needs An Electric Tote '•''; '.'..:. (By "The Toft.") ■ ' ■.'.'.:. A few years ago the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club thought that the grounds at Addingion were going to become inadequate. '. : THEY stepped out and purchased a A big property .on Riccarton, rqad, with a view to making it the -new home of the, club. . '; Btit -instead .of trotting continuing, to progress it slipped a cog or two! „, !'i .Uiis.now manifest, however, that Adclingtbn could, 'fulfil all'requirej rrienis-for many^year's to come. " ; i At its annual .meeting, of members, the chairman, A. S. Duncan, s.tated that the club proposed ••■"•'to 'subdivide' the land arid devote its. "nest-egg" to providing better accommodation at its present grounds. I ■:" , • , It is to be hoped that the improvements will include an electric totallsatorl ' . . ■ ; V ; >:.':, -.', The Kaikoura Trotting Club had k good season.. It started the year- with a debit balance of £10 16s. 6d> . and ended with a credit balance of '£25. How's that? Still not out! "■