Pony official retires
PA Hamilton] I The New Zealand Ponyi Club Association secretary, Mrs Shirley Bond, has re-1 tired after 32 years in the] position. Mrs Bond became secre- I tary in 1947, in the association’s second year of exist- ' ence, and at the thirty-third annual conference in Hamilton recently, she turned over the position to Mrs Judy Wakeling. In a surprise move the . conference approved the committee of management’s
| looking into ways of removjing the age restriction on (joining pony clubs, at the (suggestion of president, Mr | Lee Murdoch. - At last year’s conference a ; motion to increase the membership age from 20 to 25 was defeated, but Mr Murdoch said that he could see no reason why there should be any restriction. He said the concept of the pony club as a family organisation in which both parents and children could participate, should be encouraged.
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