ADDINGTON TROTS

Press, Volume C, Issue 29669, 13 November 1961, Page 12

ADDINGTON TROTS

Facilities For Public The last two days of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s cup meeting will be run at Addington. This was decided at the weekend at an emergency meeting ot the committee of the dub. There will be very limited seating for the public and there will be no visitors’ stand as a result of the fire, which destroyed the main public grandstand on Friday. The Canterbury Jockey Club and the New Brighton Trotting dub have offered assistance to the Metropolitan club and, as a result, there will be extra seating. Part of the seating, normally set aside for members, on the new concrete stand and part of the lawn in front of that stand will be made available to the public. The marquee, which was located near the showgrounds on cup and show days, will be used as a public cafeteria. Half the tea kiosk will be available as a cafeteria and the other half as a buffet luncheon area for the public. A marquee will be placed behind the burned-out stand and used as a bar, and a tent nearby will be used as a pie stall. The fire in the grandstand on Friday did not begin in the kitchen as many had thought, but underneath the seating about three rows from the front at the western end, the secretary of the club (Mr D. C. Parker) said yesterday. It was thought a cigarette butt was probably the cause.