AN INTERESTING RACE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10415, 8 September 1911, Page 5

AN INTERESTING RACE.

AND A PRESENTATION. In connection vw& fEe ananual fiootbaiE fixtiure, between, th© .Stock and stetson agents, dteratast®, *hie legall ptrofiesision and bamkexisi of Mas-' .tertooai, a handicap flait race of 100' yards wtas iuni at the oM. SSiowmtoiuindis yesterday, tihie competiiltors mc which, comprised the heaidis of tihie firms of the houses mentionmThe prize was a haridteome sinrakers oomipama'om, gold mounted!, subscribed by thie aLesriical sltaffia employed by tlbefirms, whose hieaidls were ooanpetr Ang. The wiinaierj Mr J. B. Moodie, wte presented wntth lias trophy as .winner ait the dimmer held m. Murray's Hal last Wtendng. Mr A. E. Essoin mode the pxesenK&tioin, and in, a; feliicriitauis speech isadd wast, tlfcue iStaffis trusted thait m future oompetitors would be forth-1 comdnig from every profession untier*®ted an .tihie various fixtures, amid; ijhiaifc a large fieM would compete. Mr Moodie reepoiidiedi ini' feeling KemiiSi tand expiressied a fervent hiope ttlhsub Mir EssWe wish, would be grattafled, in. .tihiaib there wiouM! be at large aimralber of coanpetiltoirs nest arad tibia*, also, a. mew w&nner of the leven* wouK be< forthcoming. •Mr D. K. Logan endorsed .the sentiments of these speakers, and want on. to ©uiogisae the ladies for the xniteres* they had. diiisplaiyed m the contfaests. He suggested, aanidstti great larapiliause, tihbjt afternoon tea be provadied om> the ground nest year for ■tihie llady sjpeobatorßL The prasmteHtiirai of tihe prize evoked great enftousiiiasjn.