WAIKATO TROTTING CLUB

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15024, 22 August 1922, Page 2

WAIKATO TROTTING CLUB

OPERATIONS FOR THE YEAR. £I9BB 4s 6d IN TAXES. _ At the annual meeting of the Waikato Trotting Club, at 2.30 on Thursday, the following report on the year •nded July 31 will be presented:Youf committee have pleasure m placing before you the annual report and statement of accounts for the year ending 31.st July, 1922. The club s annual race meeting was held on the Claudelands course on January anThe fields were large, and the racing generally of an Interesting character. The attendance was again a recoid, demonstrating a continued increase in the popularity of the sport in the district. The amount paid this year m stakes totalled £1826 ss, including a cup valued at i 5 guineas, donated by J Moiloy, Esq., showing an increase of over £3OO, compared with last -..par The Government taxes paid th.s year amounted to £i9BB 4s 6d. The several items are as follows: Two and a-half per cent on totalisator, gates and privileges, £628 15s; o per cent on dividends, £llOs 15s; amusement tax, £47 15s lOd; income tax, £23 53 2d; 10 per cent on stakes, £lB2 12s 6d. During the year yom‘ committee has bcetl in negotiation wi.n the Racing Club and the A. and P. Association -with a view to obtaining a better tenure to Hie Clatidclatlds course. As yet no definite arraiioO inehts have been arrived at, but your committee are not without hope lint ah agreement will be reached in the near future, which will be advantageous to all partied concerned. The 1 batiks of the committee are due, and afe hereby tendered to the stewards and officials who in the carrying out of their various duties so materially increased the success of the club’s i : race meeting. .The cash statement shows: —Receipts : Members’ subscriptions, £52 JOs; nomiriatioh fees, £235: acceptance fees, £246 16s: Government tax ' :and totalisator, £3633 10s Gelt gales, .£521 18s; privilege?/ £4O 7s; sundries, £26 ss; N.Z. railways, £9l 13s 4d; interest, £69 15s .8(1; refund taxes, £27 2s lOd: subscriptions outstanding £ls 10s. and nomination and acceptance fees, £3, Total, £5124 2s. ' Pavmenfs: Stakes, £1826 os; Gov eminent taxes. £1832 14s lOd: Bloomfield and Co., £429 IBs Od: rRn E £'3so: printing and advertising, £9 > 19s 9d; sundries, £6l 6s 3d; secretary and office, £100; handicapper and st&bter. £3O; Wages and course officials £B6 9s: N.Z. Trotting Association, £33 12s 6d: band. £l2 10s; stamps and petty cash, £24 19s 4d; bank Charges, £1: N.Z. railways, £9l v 13s 4d: balance, £146 3s 2d.