THAMES IMPROVEMENTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 433, 15 August 1928, Page 10

THAMES IMPROVEMENTS

j (frotix Our Ou-n Corresponded) THAMES. Tueadav The 59 th annual report of the Tk. Jockey Club to be presented at nual meeting states that the I from :in sources for the past | eluding a credit balance ot e?.' I brought forward from the year, amounted to .€17.079 ami I expenditure to £ 18.339. leavine ~2l' , balance of £730. The sum of was paid in stakes, and £6SII s. m Government taxes. as f ollo 2> totahsator duty. £2.391 is K - , ~ dend duty. £4.125 15s; staki fj!" £200: privileges duty. £jg j 5 2T’ amusement tax. £136 n s 4d -t-C ** of £367 14s 5d was also paid ta k? rates. The working account, .?* writing off £1.206 for d-preci.,;’ showed a profit of £2,093 on the v 2. transactions. * eirt . During the year, continues the port, stops were taken to acquire *7 ditional land for the purpose of T tending the club s racing track to q 7 mile in circumference, and Jut lengthy negotiations with the na , and other owners, were completed y A. C. Hill, caretaker for the Auckk* Racing Club, was engaged, and a and safe course was laid out m * cordance with his recomm*ndatio*- ; by the club’s engineer, Mr. E. F. Ada-. The committee confidently expefthat it would be in a good condition 7 race upon at the club’s annual ra« meeting in January. The rum «* £ 2,249 had been expended in land chase and formation of the track, and the club’s liability had ei7 been increased by £750. thus making the total expenditure on doursa improvements for the year £2.999. Ithac been decided to install two totalisa:** machines, facing inside and outsider*, spectively, in place of the machine i: present in existence. The six members of the commit:?to retire in accordance with the rui« are Messrs. E. F. Adams. W. H. Bait: Henry Lowe. A. C. Rae. J. Twohill aac A. H. Wilson, all of whom are elig% for re-election.