WAIRARAPA HUNT CLUB.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 169, 10 April 1908, Page 4

WAIRARAPA HUNT CLUB.

: : V ANNUAL MEETING, . (DY TEHiOHAPU.—SriOIAL CORRESrONDKXT.) V '/-.•, Masterton, .April 1 The annual; meeting of the '-AVairaraipa Hunt Club wis held to-day. Div'Ai,liosk-; iiic; occupied the chair, over,twenty.■ members being": present. The chairman submitted tho' annual report as. follows:—. "On handing,,,vou/the statement' of receipts . and expenditure J fprthe season 1907, .1 peg to again place on record; the, thanks of the Club for the kindness extonded to'its members by .! different' .property. btpiers; overwhose property they havo liunted. ,Oil perusal of the receipts, and expenditure'.account you .will. see that the clqb is. in-a sound financial position-, having a credit, bal'a'nce in the bank amounting to £3 14s. 3d., "after paying off all liabilities.. Had wo/been more fortunate."ii.v haying a .fine .day. for t-lio ah-, nual. steeplechase meeting, '• this balance, I am sure, would have been , considerably. nioro : than it is. The-thanks of the Club are dlio t-o Mr. Jamos.'Kohnedy for. his handsome do-, nation of £20. towards tho steeplechase meeting, also to Mr.- Geo.. H. Sellar. A.1..A,, N.Z,,'for his gratuitous audit of tiie books. The, annual balauco , sheet showed,., receipts for the steeplechase accounts' amounting to £150, and . expenditure £127 : 12s. , f)d.. Among the receipts were, fees, £51'. 15s.'-;" bookmakers' licenses, £26 lolrj.'gate ipour*.. £201 3s. .Gd. The expenditure included £82 for stakes. In general accounts subscriptions "and donations amounted to £87 2s. lOd. The huntsman's salary was £80."' Tho; report and balance . qhcet were adopted. ... Tne following officers were elected Patron, ?ir., G %i ,F.. Valla uco;- president, Mr. Win. Strang:".vice-presidents,.Messrs. H. JIL Bunny ;»ud H. Morison ; master of hounds, Dr, A. Hteking; deputy master,' Mr. ,W.H. Buick; sub-deputy master for.Carterton, Mr. V/. H. Booth; sub-d-sputy master'for'Mar-' tinborough and GreyboWn, Mr. H. Tilson; huntsman, Mr. 11. .Welch; general committee, the mastor, deputy masters, and Messrs. It. Brock,; G. H. Perry. Cl J. Bennett, "\V. D. Watson,- and. T. Clancy. Mr. N. H. James .was reappointed, secretary. It-was decided to'hold the annual steeplechase meeting-, tho date to bo decided at a later meeting. Tho first meet of tho hounds was set down for the: first week in May. . ' - Woods's Great. Poppermlnt Cnre for Coughs aud'Coldß never fails; "Is. Gd-.'aud 25.• Cd. CSU