WIRARAPA RACING CLUB.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4789, 2 August 1894, Page 2

WIRARAPA RACING CLUB.

; Annual Report

.The following.is extracted from A£ tho report of the W.R.0,, to be sub- • mitted at',the meeting..of.mdmbers, at the Foresters' Hall, Groytown, August 23rd, at 11 a.m.:— 1;'. . -' In submitting the fourth' annual report and balance-sheet, your Stewards have much pleasure.in again being able to show that the Club is in a healthy position. ,', : ',;: ; Reference to the statement of the receipts and expenditure of the summer and autumn meetings will show that ; tho: profits ,■ compare favorably with last season, notwithstanding that;tho Government Tax had to bo paid but of the ten per cent, commission bn'totalisatbr investments. Tho commission'for the two meetings , j amounted to £190.1s 3d, The gross "" returns for 1893, wheivthe investors j had to pay one-and-a-half per cent,, ' was£l4lß7sßd; and for 1894, when tho one-and-a-half percent; was paid out of the ten per cent,, £13416s 6d, Arrangements have been entered into with the .Trustees of the, courso for a new lease of tho property for 14 years, at the same rental, with the proviso that as each £IOO is paid off the oxistiug.moi'tgages, | ance of £7 will be.made in tho ' rental. The lease is now. being drafted, It'is recognised that the interest of the two bodies is identical, ! as the property is held in trust for racing purposes,' Notices of motion, for the annual meeting have been received :-- rI.'MrJ.S. Cundyf-That Messrs W.E. Bidwill and H. S. Izard be -#i appointed. trustees on behalf of. the Club to take a leaso of tho Taulierenikau Race Courso andallappui'ten- ' ances for a temi of 14 years, at an annual rental of £7O per annum, . /2. Mr W,E. Bidwill-That a hack J is a horse that has novor won aii advertised race at any time (hack and hunter races excepted), and is not, and has not been nominated in 'any race other than hack or hunter racos i at the same meeting, , l 3.MrT.Wright-ThatthoW,R. Club acceptor Kempton's offer of the Moroa Course for tho whole year '■. for the sum of £lO extra.. - i

4 lip W. E. Bidwill-Thattlio question of public vehicles crossing centre of course to stand be settled at ' .5, Mv Izavd— vehicles and horses be admitted, free on the course. '