WAIKATO HUNT CLUB.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 95, 23 April 1926, Page 9

WAIKATO HUNT CLUB.

SOUND FINANCIAL POSITION. ANNUAL MEETING DECISIONS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CAMBRIDGE, this day. The great interest displayed in* hunting in South Auckland -shown by the record attendance at the annual meeting of the Waikato Hunt Club, held in the Town Hall, Cambridge, last evening, Mr. Wynn Brown (Master), presiding over an attendance of fully 200, representative of the wide district. The annual report indicated a very successful year in the field, while the financial statement showed that the club was one of the most financially successful institutions of its kind in the Dominion. The statement showed a profit on the year's working of £861. 7/0. The racing account showed a profit on the meeting of £1567 11/8, while tlie assets exceed the liabilities by £6835 3/. The -\enue of the annual race 'meeting has been a burning question for some years. The advantages' of the Cambridge and Te Rapa courses were thrashed out last night, and the meeting decided, by TO3 votes to 77, to return to Cambridge, where the next meeting will be held. Members of the hunt have recognised of late that the standard of hunters throughout the North Island, and even throughout the whole Dominion, is deteriorating. With a view to encouraging members to breed a better type of hunters, the meeting resolved to recommend the incoming -executive to import a good-footed, sound hunter from the British Isles, capable of breeding typical weight-carrying hunters. "" Out of 25 nominations brought forward for the committee, .the following were elected: Messrs: Jas. Taylor, H. Crowther, A. M.. Fisher, H. Wyatt, R. Hannon, M. Wells, H. Windsor, A. Swayne, R. Townsend, N. Banks, R. Ransteadj S. Banks. ' Messrs. W. Stopford and H. Wyatt were re-elected auditor and treasurer respectively. it was decided that it be a recommendation to the incoming . racing executive to include a maiden 'hunters race on the programme if thought fit. Vote's of thanks to the farmers allowin™ their properties to be hunted over brought a successful meeting to a close.