AN AUCKLAND REMIT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 22

AN AUCKLAND REMIT

At the annual Trotting Conference to be held in Wellington next month the Auckland Trotting Club will, present a remit which aims at giving greater representation on the Trotting Association to the North Island, and in place of nine members (South Island 6, North Island 3), it will move that the board of the association be composed of 10 members, six of whom will come from the South Island, and four from the North Island. It will also suggest that in the year 1938 all the members of the association shall retire from office, and in the year 1939 and in each year thereafter, five members shall retire. The five members to retire .shall be decided by ballot, and in every subsequent year the members who have been longest in office shall retire. At the present time the North Island has three membersMessrs. S. W. Kelly, B. McCarthy, end T. J. Buxton—and the idea of the Auckland Club is to have a stronger representation on the board.

There will possibly be no strong objection to the Auckland Club's remit (says the "Press"), although the danger of too many members on an executive will be plain to all. It is very rarely that all the elected members attend a meeting of the board, and at the latest meeting only six of the nine members were present.