WELLINGTON RACING CLUS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1912, Page 8

WELLINGTON RACING CLUS

FIGURES FROM THE BALANCESHEET. The Wellington Racing Club's balance-sheet for the year ended 31st July, 1912, shows that the principal items of expenditure were : Stakes, £15,715, and Government tax £5277 03 2d. Other items were : Ambulance distribution, on account of Jockeys' and Trainers' Provident Funds, £70 12a 7dj advertising^ printing, and stationery, £382 8s 3d; attendance at meetings, £572 Os Gd ; audit fees, £31 10s j Bank of Australasia Guaranteed Account, £1250; cartage, fares, etc., £52 4s 8d; clerical assistance, £46; donations, £423 ss; furniture, £119 15s; general expenses, £11)2 11s Id ; horse feed, £214 15s 2d i interest, £1275 7s lid ; insurance, £165 153 2dj maintenance, £1604 5s lid; Mortgage, Trust, and Agency Co. of Australasia, Ltd., £4250; music, £168 ss ; permanent improvements, £463 12s 4d ; postages, telegrams, and exchange, £69 9s 4d; rent, rates^ etc., £236 19s 3d ; salaries, £1328 6s ; sundry persons, £70 ss ; Turf Register subscription. £10 10s. The principal amounts received by the club were as follow : — Totalisator, £19,221 9s 8d; gates and railway receipts, £5295 16s 3d; gentlemen riders' certificates, £12; members' subscriptions and entrance fees, £732 18s j nominations, acceptances, etc., £5166 11s 6d; privileges, race books, etc,., £966 8s lid; Selling Race, £94 7s 6d; Jockeys' and Trainers' Provident Funds withdrawn from Equitable Building Society, £67 12s 7d; fines, £3. According to the statement of assets and liabilities, the Accumulated Fund has now reached £14,444 3s.

All there were 450 passengers orought to Wellington by the Athenic from London to-day, a big majority being in the third-class. There were 36 domestic servants included among the immigrants, and it is reported tha^ with the exception of two or thiee, they had been engaged by eager mistresses before the vessel s arrival here. The number of assisted passengers was 73—49 women and 24 children. Thirteen adults and 24 children, wore nominated by relatives in Now Zealand, and 36 adults approved by the High Commissioner. There were ten wives on the vessel coming out to rejoin their husbands, who have previously settled in New Zealand. The matron on the Athenic wa3 Miss G. B. Lamb. Mr. James B. Reid, of Elderslie, a director of the Bank of New Zealand, is returning to the Dominion by the P. and O. steamer Macedonia,* which was to ha\e left London on 9th August. Mr. A. W. Blair, of the legal firm of flidpni-ui. Skerrett. Wylie. and Tripp. aiiU Mr. Thomas Neave, of the k»gal firm of P.rown, Dean, and Mease, have bei-ii created Notaries Public for the Dominion of New Zealand by the CotnmiiMiit'y of F-irulties^ anil were eworn in to-i'tiy] lief ore hii Honour Sir Robert Stout. (Jhief Justice. By the Athenic from London to-day th" re arrived three thorough-breds, two stallions, and a filly. The stallions are Ki'braney and Eokeby. They are for the stud of Mr. J. B. Reid, Ellenslte, and ur« booked fur Lyttellcm.