TARATAHI-CARTERTON RACING CLUB.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5079, 17 July 1895, Page 3

TARATAHI-CARTERTON RACING CLUB.

1 The following is a copy of th e j report and balance sheet of the above r Club, to be presented to the Annual c i General Meeting of members to be g held at the Library, Carterton, on r Saturday, 20th July, 1895, at 2.30 ] p.m.:- _ a £f' ut In presenting the annual state- [ JPpient to the members, it is gratify- a ing to be ablo to record that the j past season has been exceptionally j. successful, as shown by the annexed j balance 6heet. This is the first { occasion on which a report has been published with the balance sheet. ( twenty-four in 1892; fifty in 1893; „ and for the year now under review, ~ tho members roll was raised to over 0 two hundred, tho increase in strength causing the word "hack" to be „ eliminated from tho Club's title, in order that prizes might he offered £ for racehorse! as well as hacks. Tho improvements mado on the n course at Clarevillc, which has 1 been leased from Air T. It ay, on ~ y most satisfactory terms, comprise a „ new Grandstand, Saddling Paddock, Stewards' Stand, Secretary's Office, a Weighing Koom,PressOilice,Jcckey's „ Room, the laying out anil making of it f now course, fencing it all round, m«.k- t ingaploughgaUop,etc,whichtogether i lave made the Club's property a well c appointed racecourse, capable of furtherimproTementas funds permit, , but utill convenient and safe in all £ Respects. The thanks of the Club are Mpie to those kind friends who bare ( / so largely contributed to tho pr esent satisfactory stato of affairs. Thoir < assistance has been of the utmost importance and always freoly given. ( The Hon Secretary is now busy , organising a " bee " to make still further improvements. Tho meeting held on 9th November J 1894, was admittedly agreat Buccess, There were good fields foreachevent, , asd the largest attendance ever seen on a course in Wairarapa, resulting ' lin a profit of £20714s sd, after all ) were paid. I The buildiug and improvements | caused an expenditure of £535 18s , 4d. £l5O was raised by debentures, j ' the greater portion of which Bum has . been presented to the Club, which sportsmanlike conduct will no doubi ] be appreciated by tho raombew, Tho amount voted for tho erection of the / Grand Stand was found to be insuf- j ficient and several members very , kkdly arranged for an overdraft of SO and guaranteed it. This ( rrtnount has since been paid off. t The list of nominations reseived testifies to tho success of the Wair- , arapa Hack Guineas for both 1895 : and 1896. The first event will be : run in November next and will add j considerably to the interest generally taten in the meeting. In addition to the usual business, the meeting will be required to deal with the following notice of motion by Mr C.J. Kemble':-"Tkt the rule limiting the number of Stewards to nine be rescinded." W. 0. BocHAMAjr,,Preßi(Jent.