WANGANUI JOCKEY CLUB.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IV, Issue 158, 3 August 1893, Page 2

WANGANUI JOCKEY CLUB.

(from our own correspondent.)

Wanganui, July 31. The annual meeting of the members of the Wanganui Jockey Club was held on the 28th inst. There was a large attendance. Dr. Earle presided. The Committee’s report reads thus :— Last year the Committee had to notice the death of their President, Mr H. S. Harrison; and now we have again to regret the loss the club has sustained by the death of their Vice-President, Mr J. Cameron, a gentleman who took a deep interest in all racing matters, and was one of the early settlers that raced in New Zealand, having ridden in the first hurdle race ever run in Wanganui, in 1848. He passed away full of honours and loved by all members of the community. We have also lost through death Mr E. Broughton. He was one that had taken a deep interest in the club’s welfare since its inception, and occupied the position of auditor for many years. It will be your duty to elect some qualified person to fill his place. The accounts before you reveal a loss of 47 17s sd for the year’s working, but members will take into consideration the fact that we gave away 4 5s more in stakes than last year. The improvements are nearly as complete as we can make them, and the new training tracks are now, we believe, equal to any in the colony. The balance sheet shows the club to be in a good financial position, viz., 47 10 19s to credit. The duties devolving on the committee have been more onerous than usual including the sifting of the evidence in the ‘ Emmett ’ case. The decision arrived at after careful examination of those interested has already been published, and meets, we believe, with the approval of the racing community. Messrs Chavannes, R. Higgie, Williamson, and Dr. Connolly retire from the committee in accordance with the byelaws of the club.

The following is the balance sheet for the year ending June 30 : — Receipts—By privileges, gates and grandstands 41115 13s 6d; sale of booths, cards, &c., Z 336; totalisator (less Government tax, 43 22 14s lod), 41915 5s 6d; total, 43366 19s. Entries account, 41311 10s; grazing account, £2 ; interest account (less exchange, &c., 49 9s 2d), 428 os lod ; registered colours, 44 4 s J members subscriptions, 4159 9s; training fees, 493 ; fines received, 47; balance, 47 T 7 s sd; total, 45 00 5 os 3d. Expenditure—To stakes account, 43334 <os; advertising and printing, 4 r 59 lOS ®d. Charges account : Rents, rates and insurances, 439 14 s 6d; band, 431 ss; luncheon, three meetings (less both privileges), 410, 434 16s. Labour and wages, 4108 4s ; voted to Conference delegates, 432 12s ; voted to Confesence expenses, 4 10 < voted to Queensland Relief Fund, 4 10 10s ; general expenses, 4125 ns id; total, 4392 12s yd. Training ground maintenance, 4’4° 6s 6d ; improvements account, £612 16s 6d. Salaries account: secretary, 4 IO ° J custodian,,£ ioo ; handicapper, 4100; starter, £6O ; auditor, 45 2S—--4365 ss. Total, 45005 os 3d. Balance-sheet, June 30th, 1893 — Invested funds, 4750 ; amount due to club, 4 1 37 4 s 5 sus ' pense account, £1; balance at Colonial Bank (less outstanding cheques 434 IOS )» £& 2 *Bs 3^; cash in hand, £2 ns gd ; total, 4953 r 4 s - Derby, 1893, 443; Derby, 1894, 449; Two-year-old Stakes, 1894, 444; Distressed Jockeys Fund, 497 ; acccounts owing by club, 49 I S S > balance, 4710195. Total, 4953 14s. Profit and loss account, June 30th, 1893 — Balance to profit and loss, 1893, 4712 19s ; balance as above, 47 17 s s*l J total, £7lB 16s 5d ; balance as per statement, iB6O, 47*8 16s 3d. The report and balance-sheet were adopted on the motion of the chairman, seednded by Mr Higgie.

The following officers for the ensuing season were elected . —Judge, Dr. Earle ; clerk of scales, Mr E. A. Campbell; timekeeper, Mr W. Wilson; clerk of course, Mr C. H. Chavannes ; honorary surgeon, Dr. Tripe. The election of stewards resulted as follows : Dr. Connolly, and Messrs. Wilson, R. and A. Higgie, Parsons, Nixon, and H. Harri son; committee, Messrs. Fletcher, R. Higgie, Chavannes, and Drs Connolly and Saunders, with officers ex officio; auditor, Mr J. Couchman. It was decided that a portrait of ;he club’s late President (Mr J. Cameron) be procured and hung up in the club room, and that the club’s delegate at the next Conference impress upon the Conference the desirability of imposing a guinea fee on gentlemen riders, the same to augment the distressed jockeys’ fund. It was also resolved that it be a recommendation to the incoming committee to take into consideration the advisability of erecting a members’ stand.