P.B. TROTTING CLUB.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14837, 14 February 1919, Page 2

P.B. TROTTING CLUB.

The annual meeting of the.P.B. Trotling.i Club* wag ilield" last night, in the 1 C6§niop.bl|tan Club, v,when ,-j.Mv.- G. E. ■: JojieSsypi-esideci- dvel'jttn uttendaiice of 21 ; mem'bei's. •,■•„.' • <y. </ [' The Vbaiahce-sheet ' showed -.' .£255 i'-9s j lid" 1 ci'edit;' with' no liabilities '(£2oo*beihe:•/invested- in w-ar^loan); » ,' ' * The Vcliib suspendfed "y Activities last year. Owing • to ■ the 'war,;- but 'I this year the i meiftbevg are hopeful fof • the ; cltib experiencing.; a t . Very 'successful season} judging^' by '-' the v e)cpr€ssibng •of opinion at last night's' rheetiiigw ■.■+ •',•'. 1 The election of '■ officers resulted as follows : — Patrons, Sir James Carroll, K.C.M.G., Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald, M.P., Messrs D. J. Barry. H. deLautour, G. Matthewson, C. Neenan, J. W. Nolan, G. W. Primrose, and K. S. Williams; president, Dr. C. F. r Scott; vicepresident, Mr. G. : E. Jones; commit tee, Messrs. S. Woo.tton, IT~. C. Dorn, R. Campbell, A. McFarquhar, A. T. Webb, J. Greentree, •*. G. Haapu, B. Smith, G. S. Woods, J. Riddell, W. Howard. anJ A. Langford; secretary and treasurer, Mr. H. E. Dodd. Thirty-one new members were elected. It was intimated that application had been made to the Trotting Association for May 24th, as the date of the club's meeting. The date of- the annual balance was altered to July 31st instead 1 of Septem'ber 30th as previously. A circular letter was received from the association, pointing out that under section 33 of the Gaming Act the club was authorised to control the admission of any person to the racecourse, those barred being (1) bookmakers; (2) bookmakers' clerks under disqualification by any racing or trotting club: (3) all persons considered undesirable from a moral standpoint ; (4) professional tipsters. — Received. This concluded the business of the meeting.