FRANKLIN RACING CLUB.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 184, 6 August 1935, Page 14

FRANKLIN RACING CLUB.

THE ANNUAL MEETING. A SUCCESSFUL SEASON. (From Our Own Correspondent.) PUKEKOHE, Monday. A successful year was reported by the president, Mr. F. A. Hosking, at the annual meeting of the Franklin Hating Club at Pukekohe thie evening, there being an excess of income over expenditure of £454 14/6. The total expenditure amounted to £6805 8/1, the main items being stakes £1870, taxes £2851 14/, course improvements and interest £609 4/3, while income amounted to £7350 2/7, the principal sources being totalkator £5030 19/6, nominations and acceptances £490, and gates and race books £595 6/0.

Mr. Hosking suid that the club was unlucky in having to postpone the meeting arranged for Saturday, July 21, last year, but managed to pull through with a small profit on the following Monday. The annual race meeting held last March was a pronounced success, and yielded an actual profit of £890. In December last negotiations between the committee and the Bay of Islands Club resulted in an agreement between the two clubs whereby the northern club's meeting would be held on the Pukekohe course until certain liabilities had been liquidated, when the permit would be transferred to the Franklin Club. Circumstances last year required the extra meeting to be held as a second day in March, but the northern club's meeting would bo held on a separate Saturday this year, November 23 being the date selected. With the second permit now assured, he had asked the committee to consider the question of erecting a stand for the seating and shelter of patrons.

Mr. Hoeking paid tribute to the untiring energy and unbounded enthusiasm of the late Mr. Dynes Fulton, whose untimely death came as a great shock to members, and he proposed to ask the conmittee • to name one of the jprincipal races the Dynes Fulton Memorial Handicap, and thus help to perpetuate the memory of their late president.

The following officers were elected:— President, Mr. F. A. Hosking; vice-presi-dent, Mr. R. Fulton; committee, Messrs. G. S. Arkle, R. W. Bilkey, W. Barnaby, T- Hancock, R. J. Glasgow. J. Kennelly. E. H. Keating, T. E. Keven, F. J Morrow, G. T. Proude, A. J. Prescott and C. E. Walter.

Mr. Hosking, following hie re-election as president, stated that he had obtained some interesting figures which revealed the fact that despite the Franklin Club being the youngest club in New Zealand, they, of all the one-day permit clubs in New Zealand, had the largest totalizator turnover, this being an indication of the progress made during the past fourteen years.