SPORTING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 31 May 1907, Page 3

SPORTING

CANTERBURY JOCKEY CLUB. ANNUAL MEETING. Per Press Association. Christchurch, May 30. The annual meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Club was held this afternoon. The balance-sheet showed that receipts for the year had amounted to £41,272 19s lOd, which included '£10,832 !)s Id race receipts and £18,384 4s lid tot-il-

isator account. The expenditure totalf led £39,697 7s 6d, which included £25,t338 in stakes paid, and £2991 14s 111 totalisator tax. On the general working account the profit for the year .r»s £5,313 8s lid. The chairman, Mr F. 11. Pvne, in moving the adoption of the leport and balance-sheet, said the future prosperity of the club largely depended on the continuance of the totalisator, and he confidently believed that those people who thought that no law could abolish betting would be in the major-

ity, and would not allow tie totalisator to be done away with. He wi-h'<d to say nothing against respectable bookmakers, but surely the tote was th ' healthiest and best form of betting, without which the club could give nothing tike the same valuable stakes whl:h they were now enabled to give. Many people in New Zealand who had not been to the Old Country, where the tote was not in existence, had no idea of the vast extent to which betting obtained

amongst all classes of th« community, and he knew that in nearly every country village sums of money from li'l upwards were collected every iluy an.l *ent to London or some otherlarjie centre for investment on the day - rac ■?. •- Auckland, M-iy 30. Irish was schooled over the Steeplechase course of Ellerslie this afternoon,

and pulled up sound. : Malioe was scratched for all en gap * ments at the Great Northern meeting to-day at 3.40 p.m. Consequent oil Mahoe's scratching, Shrapnel has been installed favorite for the Great Northern Hurdle Kace.