RACES POSTPONED

Evening Post, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 11

RACES POSTPONED

DANNEVIRKE MEETING (By Telegraph), . (From "Rangatira.") WOODVILLE, This Day. The effort to hold the. opening day of the Dannevirke.Racing Club's Meeting at Woodville today in defiance of the weather finally proved abortive. In .an almost blinding deluge of rain that was falling at the. time tho totalisator was due to close for the first race, an, announcement was made' that the stewards had decided; to postpone the racing until tomorrow. , There were about sixty cars and 300 people present, and tho course was fast becoming a series of miniature-, lakes. An amount of £40 odd had been invested, on the first race. Refunds of investments and admission charges were made, and patrons generally took the matter philosophically. Horses already scratched and who cannot be reinstated were Remiss, Air Laddie, Whyte Melville, Hunting Jay, West Tor, La Moderne, and Cuticle.

Tho death is reported from Dunedin of Mr. John Mitchell Alexander, aged 61, sub-manager of Mr. P. Hayman and Co. until 1930. Ho was a prominent Bugby player and cricketer in tho nineties, a member of the Dunedin Bowling Club for 15 years, a life member of tho Dunedin Male Choir, and the first life member of tho Otago Bugby Referees' Association. Iv. Johnston and Co.,- auctioneers, will sell ladies' frocks, etc., at their mart, S \\ illcston Street, toinorroWj at 1.30 p m