GERALDINE RACING CLUB.

Otago Witness, Issue 2569, 10 June 1903, Page 52

GERALDINE RACING CLUB.

' The annual meeting of the Geraldine Ksoir.g Cub v*9 held in the Geraldine Hotel last ' week, when there waa a- good attendance of members, Mr B. R. Macdouald (president) in ■the chair. The balance sheet showed a credit balance of £20 8s 6d. The Chairman congratuSated the club on another successful year, despite the bad weather met with at th* spring meeting. Although the expenditure amounted to about £50 more— including increased stakes— than last year, /.he club had come out with a credit on the right side, and tho whole indebtedness of the club (trustees and everything) mow was only £30. The Programme Committee jwould no doubt have to cons.der whether it ;would not be advisable to increase the stakes year. The innovation made last year in Slaving a- hunters' hurdle race was a great sue"cess irom tho club's point of view, and he .-thought it would bs wise to continue tp hold (races of this kind. Sezcral improvements had 'recently been made to the cour»«, and one that Seas appreciated at the last race meeting was ;the new arrangement made -with regard to the fiuncheon bo»th. Several' more improvement* Vould be carried out this year, amongst which jwould orobab'.y be tho shifting and enlarging of Hhe totalisator. The press room would also be. flfurnishecl to meet the requirements of the in-'er-ea&ed number of reporters from pa-pera in Vlifferent parts of th-e colony. During the past year the membership of the club had increased ibeyond the most sanguine expectations of tho committcs, and ii wa3 still increasing. In conclusion, the Chairman referred with regTet to Tthe loss the club hed sustained through the ideath of the late Hr G. Dowse, who had handicapped for them for many years, and whose genial countenance would be very much missed irom omongpt them at Tace time. Four new in<einber» weTe elected. The election of officers

resulted as follows.— Prssident, Mr B. R. Micclonajd; vice-presidents, Messrs J. Malicg and 'It. R. Orosbie; treasurer, Mr J. Maling; secre"tary, Mr E. O'Ma4l«y; General Conitnittc&— 2iesarß Brown, Quirk, Turner, A. G. Mac"donald, ADgland, Worner, Kennedy, Austin, and IE. Scott ; Programme Committee— Messrs Brown, Quirk, A. G. Maodonald, and Turner. Mr Joseph Chadwick was appointed hondi<apper, and Mr O'Connor starter. The dates Jot the ' forthcoming meeting were fixed for ■September 24 and 25. The president and secreitury were appointed to make new arrangements llor the working of the totalisator at the spring aneeticg. The president was instructed to have ■ifche courß* surveyed and laid off a chain wid'?, -ond it was proposed, as a Tecomm»nda.t lon to •She incoming committsj. to consider the ad--vifiabhsness of shifting and improving tho totalisator house.