MASTERTON RACING CLUB

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10628, 6 May 1912, Page 5

MASTERTON RACING CLUB

monthly meeting. The iiHontibJy meeting of fhe,.. stew:ards cf itihe Mast'ertofo.Rating' : ' GOftrV nvas held cm Saturday afternoon. There iwerfe present Messrs C. F. Yallance J. Maca.ra, A.. J. Welch, IGI. H. Yaltes, «T. B. Mpcdie, \V. Cotop©r, J. lorn®, C. FJ 'Bennett, Dorset, A.. CT. Pi'kner, D. McLacßilniV.*, lAn '&pohgsy far absence was received from Mr O. C. Ccwper. The secretary (if .the 'Woodlands Hunt CCub wrote, asking for financial assistance, owng to Ohtb being under a' targe amount of expense. A motion was earned stating that, ©wing to tfie heavy expenditure in-1 cur red in renewing buildings destroy- 1 ed <by fire., rtdie Cfl.u'b regretted their inability to accede to .the -request. The Treaurer's report -was as folitowfi:— TatalMsator aiccount, or., £506 7s; General ficcoamt, dr., £l6B Is 4d; Trust account, £35 16s. ■ Tlie Ground Gwnm xtee's .report, recommended .that .a new stewards' Btarnd, Jockeys' room and secretary's offijee comlbined, ibe erected 60 feet ifroim itihe new girandstatod on the- left ■side. That tenders be obtained for Shifting tEe' old stewards' stand for a stand for •ilhe outside public,, price l rfio include ironing an icier the spats, be fcfb in good irepa'.v; all new ■wood l work to be pair.'tod Arith three coats» cf pr/n:t, and «M wk to (have itrmo eoaits cif paint; aTI .broken glass to ibe .rcplace'd. That the stewards 3wtp ,dihe whole wf the .property lor grazing purposes, and .that Mr W. Cctoper bet.sisks(L,fo locli out for suit-, able sheep for' putting on the ground, •That a cheque for i-cin TitHuidibe paid ito McConkey jim.r. tfor assistance given on the course. That M.r Dorset ibe aratJiorised to order the' timber necessary for the erection cf 13 new 'loosse 1 - Sjoxee and Ifewo feed-iVoomfi, and ge't the timber stacked on the p/onnd.