SUMNER TENNIS AND CROQUET CLUB.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12932, 11 October 1907, Page 5

SUMNER TENNIS AND CROQUET CLUB.

Th« first annual meeting of the SumlK'i Tennis and Croquet Club wne lield on the 7th. just., Mr H. W. Jennings presiding over a good attendance.

The committee's annual report stated that the expenditure for the your was £lS(i 10s 10d which loft a balance to <*,>bit of £'"• Tl lo initial exwore htMvy owing to the rough nature ot the laud on which the greens and courts were laid down. 'iuero wero ol la<li(.s and -13 gentlemen on the membership roll. The question of providing a pavilion was recomnicnded to ti'.e considoration of th> incoming? comrr.itt'.M- an<l reference was made to tlio «tr!!c-ture in the Exhilvition grounds, the original cost of which was £SO, which v.-:t.s offered for £"iO. It could !k? removed Iwdily and as ithas to ho taken away immediately them was a possibility that it could bo obtained for L-0. The report was adopted. Officers were as follows:— President. Mr R. W. Chapman: vicepietsidents. Arohdtacon Thorpe, Me&>rs Goo. Mitt-hell (Mnyor of iSumner). F. Pratt, H. W. Jennings, P. Pender, nnd J. S. Mom k; hon. 6ecretary, Mr C. A. E. Ferguson: hon. treasurer, Mr Y. Donald; committee, Messrs P. Harvej*. W. J. Ke-rr, AY. Nicholson, T. Chapman, and Price; hon. auditor, Mr G. E. Rawnsley. It was decided to join the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association, and Mr O. A. E. Ferguson was appointed tho club's delegate to that body.