SPORTING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9835, 7 August 1900, Page 7

SPORTING.

The report of the Auckland Racing Club's operations for the past year shows that the club had a very successful season. They held four meetings, giving in added money the sum of £17,960, against £16,760 the previous season. The tuUlisator investments amounted to £138,281, against £119,520.' The profits on the four meetings during the season show an increase of £15,79- 10s, as compared with the previous year. The net profit carried to capital as the re=ult of the year's meetings is £3690 2s 9d after writing off£ll42~l4s 3d on racecourse, furniture, plant, improvements, &c, being an increase of £1579 on last year's profits. The president, in the course of his address at the annual meeting, protested against the practice of members of the metropolitan club committee holding office as stewards on other local or suburban clubs. He hoped the club would mark their protest and back him up in this matter. The duties of the stewards were dealt with by the president, who said it was their duty to abstain from betting or backing horses, as their judgment was often warped thereby. The report was adopted, and on the motion of the Hon. E. Mitchelson the following was carried :—" That it be an instruction to the incoming committee to discontinue the practice hitherto adopted of deducting 5 per cent from the stakes."