NEW CLUB FORMED

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28491, 22 January 1958, Page 5

NEW CLUB FORMED

(New Zealand Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, Jan. 21. Taranaki’s third trotting club—the Stratford Trotting Club—was formed by a meeting of about 100 persons at Stratford this evening. The club has a financial membership of 70. Mr A. J. Corrigan, president of the Hawera Trotting Club, and until recently a member of the executive of the New Zealand Trotting Conference. who was chairman, said that Stratford had shown at agricultural and pastoral shows during the last 30 years that it could stage good trotting competitions. He warned the meeting that it might be some time before the new club could get a totalisator permit. It would have to begin racing with a matinee meeting Two members of the Stratford Racing Club. Messrs J. Young, vicepresident, and R. M. O’Sullivan, said that the racing club was agreeable to a trotting club using its facilities. An interim committee was elected to apply for registration and prepare rules.

Mr Stratton In Christchurch

The president of the Western Australian Trotting Association (Mr J. P. Stratton) was in Christchurch on Monday and met officers of the New Zealand Trotting Conference. The president of the conference (Mr C. S. Thomas) had discussions with Mr Stratton, and later took him on a tour of a number of training near Christchurch. X

Mr Stratton left Christchurch yesterday.