CLYDESDALE HORSE SOCIETY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXII, Issue 8298, 10 June 1912, Page 8

CLYDESDALE HORSE SOCIETY.

MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE.

..A meeting of the Council of the Clydesdale Horse Society was held m the Board Room of the Otago A. and P. Society on Thursday evening.. The following were present:—Mr J. A. 'Johnstone (president, m the • chair), Messrs Alex. Hunter (Hawera), Thos. XiQjjan (Otama),. G. C. Thomson (Wairpngoa), John Ewan (Drummoiid), Ernest Short (Paroraiigi), J. .W. Harding (Mount Vernon), H. Saun- , <|ors (Waimate), Jas. Grant (Hawera), jas. Gow (Invermay), W, J, Charters (Ury Park), R. J. Dagg (Mastertori), J. D. Wylie -(Soi'ton), John Shearer (Ashburton), Win. Gardiner (Papakaio), and C. J. Reakes, M.R.C.V.S.* • Amongst those elected members of the society Avere Messrs John McLauchlan (Craigieburn, -Waterton, Ashburton), and Peter Shearer (Wheatstone). " • J :'t» Vi. The following were appointed JUiiting Committee, with pov/er to add to their number: For the North IslandMessrs J. W. Harding, Alex Hunter, and Ernest Short; for the South Island—Messrs J. D. Wylie, Jas. Gow, and Thos. Logan. ■_• . . _ The president, and Messrs VV. J. Charters, James Gow, G. C. Thomson, and J. W. Blair were appointed a C*enijral Purposes Committee (finance, etc), It was agreed to rent- an office for the secretary m the Otago A. and P. Society's Buildings, Crawford .Dunedin, _: Mr Peter Barr, of Messrs Barr, Lmvj, and Co., waa appointed auditor to the society. Mr Ernest Short moved that it be a recoramendation to entrants that any stallion or mare up to six years old may be provisionally certified by a brorermnent veterinary surgeon to be tree from hereditary unsoinidness; entries accompanied 1 by such certificate would have the association's stamp affixed. This was seconded by. Mr J. "W. Harding and, after debate, carThe President announced that the society had .been offered two 50-gumea and one 20-guinea challenge <;upsv for.; competitioii among animals .entered m the society's Stud" Book. These were, accepted with thanks. • - . It was moved by Mr John Shearer, seconded by Mr Geo. C. Thomson, and: tmannnousiy carried, that breeders who havo thoir-- stock resristered m f the. Draught Horse Stud Book may have that 'stock, if approved by the Editing Committee, transferred to volume 1. of this society's Stud Book at hall rates.