COUNTRY RACING.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20266, 7 August 1937, Page 9

COUNTRY RACING.

PROFITS ON MEETINGS. TE AWAMUTU CLUB. DONATION OF TROPHIES. (Speoial to Times). TE AWAMUTU, Friday. Mr J. T. Young presided at a meeting of the oommittee of the Waipa Racing Club. There was a good attendance. Appreciation was expressed of the Racing Conference granting June 25 for the club’s winter meeting. This evoked the comment that a semiofficial publication had published December 14 and 18 aa the date for the summer meeting—an ofbvious mistake. The treasurer submitted a statement of finances showing that the summer meeting yielded a profit of £I4OB 18s lOd, and for the winter meeting £729 6s lid as compared with £6lO 12s lOd and £512 19s lid for the two meetings the previous year. The profit on the latest winter meeting was considerably reduoed owing to the abandonment of the meeting scheduled for May, and the loss there was between £2OO and 2250. The president annoiunced an offer from the son of the late Mr Andrew Kay of 25 guineas annually to perpetuate Mr Kay’s memory, the suggestion being that the money be used to purchase a trophy, or as added money, for either the Orakau Hurdles or the Haok and Hunter's Bteepleohase. The race oould be named the Andrew Kay Handicap. Mr Tims said that Mr Kay had for over half-a-century been associated with raolng in this dlstrlot. The offer was accepted and the donor thanked by aoolamat'on. Mr Tims next announced an offer by Mr J. C. Monteflore to donate a trophy for the Te Awamutu Cup at the next summer meeting.—The offer was gratefully accepted and it was remarked that Mr Monteflore had donated the trophy for the first race ever held by the olub. Mr Tims reported having with Mr Storey attended the meeting of the South Auckland Country Club’s Association at Hamilton recently when proposals for the use of a portable eleotrio totalisator were discussed. He said the proposal entailed considerable outlay, exceeding £15,000, plus a salaried expert engineer. Ultimately, said Mr Tims, the association asked the representative of the portable totalisator scheme to confer with Messrs Blomfleld and Company and meet the association again. After oonst'derable dlsoussion, no decision was reached, it being decided to await the outcome of the conference with the present totalisator proprietors.