OWNERS AND BREEDERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1936, Page 13

OWNERS AND BREEDERS

' '."A"clecisiori'if6?fbrmi a.'committee and link up with the already-established Wanganui and Wairarapa branch of the New Zealand Owners', Breeders', and Trainers'-, Association was made at a representative meeting of trainers and others at Tretnthajn last ■ evening. The branch will be known as ,the : Wanganui-Wairarapa-Wellington committee of the association, 'and Mr. L. Paull has been1 appointed' secretary ;6f the-branch,: with • headquarters at [Palmerston North.' '■":.'- :. ' . .■■'.■'. . Last' evening's ~ • meeting , was^ \ addressed by the organiser, Mr. E. G-. Sutherland, who - explained that the ; Nbrth island would be completely linked up as soon as the' Wellington ■and Hawked Bay ■L cpihmiffees; were established.: - Mr: S. .J. Reid was' in the chair, and atrthe cphclusiorviptthe address it was agreed to form a. Wellington; committee,: which was* appointed as' follows:—Messrs;' '.H. ' B;- ■ .Lorigan (chairman); T.R.>George, E.'Simpsoh, W. J. Wood, A- Goodman, D.MeCauley, and-.A..., E. Browne. . Incidental to nthe general business, the-meeting. expressed very strong-ap-proval of a proposal'that the authorities; concerned should be approached with a view to securing the establishment of receiving-depots for the totalisator in the main cities of the Dominion, It: was'believed-that the setting up of such depots" would solve the problem of off-the-course betting. ~;.' ■