Waimarino hosts National conference

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 5, Issue 3, 16 June 1987, Page 6

Waimarino hosts National conference

The national conference of the New Zealand Pony Club Association starts in Ohakune this Saturday. Ohakune mayor Bill Taylor will open the conference, which has 180 people registered to attend. Of this number, 91 are delegates from the 84 pony clubs in New Zealand, 25 are from the committee of management of the New Zealand Association and the rest are observers. This is to be the first club conference to be held in the King Country. Last year the annual conference was held in Oamaru and next year's may be in the Waitemata-Rodney area. The Committee of Management (the National body of the N.Z. Pony Club Association) will be meeting on the Thursday and Friday preceeding the Conference in the Lions Den. The Ohakune Branch will be catering for the conference on Thursday and the Raetihi Branch will be

catering on Friday. All seven National Instructors will be at the conference to conduct a workshop on the Saturday. The first session of the conference is to be held at the Ohakune Club from 24.30pm. The sessions will continue on Sunday. On the Saturday night a dinner and dance will be held at the Primary School Hall with a live band, called "Unlimited Capacity". The highlight of the conference will be the workshop on the Saturday morning. The demonstrations will be open to pony club members free of charge. The programme for the workshop includes video - its use as a teaching aid, balance, fitting saddlery/martingales, lunging, condition, Manual No. 3, questions to the panel. The conference is open to any person interested in horses not just Pony Club members.