THE 14th OF MARCH.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2066, 8 January 1898, Page 2

THE 14th OF MARCH.

The Te Aroha Jockey Club meeting is generally regarded in Auckland and throughout the Tipper Thames as one of the most enjoyable little- meetings of the season. This year the committee are to be congratulated on finding themselves in a position to offer increased inducements to owners to enter the best their stables can produce for the rich stakes to be picked up on the breezy little course at Te Aroha West on March, the 14th next. We are glad to hear also that the committee have completed arrangements for the erection of. a grand stand with seating accommodation for five hundred people. We remember last year well and the good day we had across the river. We were not carriage people in those days, but paid our eighteen hard-earned pennies like a sportsman for tho right, which prove! to be of an intermittent order, to stand on a plank supported on a couple of cronk gin cases and see the fun. The Tottenham corner of the course, too, where Porangi Potai and Merry Maid came to grief last year, has been drained and has set handsomely leaving a capital bit of galloping ground. Altogether, we believe the mooting promises to be the best on record, and the only question we would like to ask of the energetic committee, is what about the harmony and ore our Brass Banders to turn out this year?