SPORTING INTERESTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 313, 5 December 1936, Page 6

SPORTING INTERESTS.

OWNERS’, BREEDERS’ AND TRAINERS’ ASSOCIATION. A decision to form a committee and link up with the already established Wanganui and Wairarapa branch of the .New Zealand Owners’, Breeders’ and Trainers’ Association was reticle at a representative meeting of trainers and others at Trcnthnm. The branch will bo known as the Wanganui-Wairarapa-Wellington committee of the association, and Mr L. l’aull lias been appointed secretary of the branch with headquarters at Palmerston North. The meeting was addressed by the organiser, Mr E. G. Sutherland, who explained that the North Island would be completely linked up as soon as the Wellington and Hawke’s Bay committees were established. Mr S. J. Reid was in tile chair, and at the conclusion of the address it was agreed to form a Welllington committee, which was appointed as follows Messrs H. B. Lorigan (chairman), T. K. George, E. Simpson, W. J. Wood, A. Goodman, D. McCauley, and A e’ Browne. Incidental to the general business, the meeting expressed very strong approval 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