P.B. HUNT CLUB

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17231, 10 April 1930, Page 15

P.B. HUNT CLUB

THE ANNUAL MEETING MORE COUNTRY NEEDED The annual meeting of the Poverty Bay Hunt. Club was held this afternoon, Mr. R. Shemitl presiding over a fair attendance. The statement of accounts submitted to the meeting showed gross receipts amounting to £3031, the outstanding items being: Gates and grandstand, £203; nominations and acceptances, £197;, totalisator receipts, £1397; privileges, £01; members’ subscriptions, £2B-1; Hunt Club ball, £244; accident insurance fund, £73; riding foes, £100; and point-to-point meeting, £lO7. .Stakes for the annual meeting accounted for £Ol3 among the expenditures of the year, while taxation (totalisator £291, dividend £32.>, amusement £3O) accounted for a total of £847; repairs and maintenance cost. £133, horse feed £ll3, wages and salaries £4lB, buildings and improvements £lB7, horse fares £37, kennel expenses £4O, Hunt Club hall £BO, and the point-to-point meeting £23. The profit on the year’s working was £173, the taxation refund of £143 accounting for a considerable proportion of the credit balance. The liabilities of the club amount to £l9ll, including £I9OS in the capital account, while the assets comprise land account £347, buildings and improvements £IOO9, plant £lB, uniforms £25, sundry debtors £2ll, Bank of Australasia £72, telephone £l7, Poverty Bay Club £loo. The statement was commented on by the president as a. very satisfactory one, and was adopted unanimously. “Wo have a .little less money in hand to start the year with than we had last year, but the money spent on the buildings in the meantime would have had to bo provided soon in any case, and the dub is really in a better position than it was,” said Mr. Sherratt. Mr. R. Sherratt was re-elected president, accepting the oflice with the remark that lie would do his best, but that “they were all getting older. ’ “Some get better as they become older,” remarked Mr A. It. Hiue, amidst applause. The post of vice-president was again filled by the appointment of Mr. A. R. iline, and Mr. P. Sherratt was reappointed master of hounds, with Messrs H. R. Williams and J. Jobson as deputy masters. The committee for the, ensuing year was elected as follows: Messrs. L. Fitzgerald, M. L. Holden, R. 0. Fiskcn, H. Dods, J. Jobson, and 11. It. Williams. Mr. If. M. Porter was appointed auditor.

In the course of a general discussion on the prospects, of the coming hunt season, Mr. A. R. Iline said that all members would have to do something to secure more country for their meets. They were losing more country every year on the flats, owing to the extension of maize cropping. “Wo are flogging Awapuni every season,” remarked Mr. Mine, “and we will have to have more scope. It’s all right having a first-class pack, but if you haven't the country, you are not going to get. the value of a good pack.” . The president commented that there ought to be 10 areas at least, which could be hunted more than once.

It was mentioned that He.xton would be closed to the hunt this year, and the president commented that they would have to work harder to be sure of plenty of scope.

Mr. Hine stated that it was too expensive to hunt on some parts of the flats, owing to the- cost, of repairing fences and other costs.