WELLINGTON RACING CLUB.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VI, Issue 265, 22 August 1895, Page 8

WELLINGTON RACING CLUB.

[by Wire —from our own correspondent.]

August 20. The stewards of the Wellington Racing Club met yesterday afternoon and drew up the report to be presented to the annual meeting on the 26th inst. It states that the three meetings held during the past season were most successful, fully justifying the action the stewards took in increasing the added money. Included in the receipts for the past two years is the sum of £2lB received for licenses of trainers, jockeys, and apprentices. This money will be transferred to trust accounts, viz., Trainers’ Provident Fund and Jockeys’ Provident Fund, and the amounts to the credit thereof will be available in cases of accident or distress. The racecourse and appointments have been kept up to their usual standard, though at Easter practically the whole of the new sand track was washed away. The starting machines have proved a success. The receipts for the year, ended 31st July, include the balance from last year, £239 8s lid ; entries, £1,134 ; booth and cards, £220 ; lawn and gates, £Bl5 4s 8d ; admission per railways, £3lO ; totalisators (£3,536 15s 6d less state tax £57115s Id) £2,965 0s 5d ; members’ subscriptions, £llB 13s; jockeys and apprentices’ licenses, £lO2 10s. The total is £6,000 17s 4d. The largest items of expenditure were : — stakes, £3,773 5s ; salaries, wages, etc., under various heads, £825 ; balance fixed deposit in Equitable building and Investment Co., £400; Bank of Australasia, £129 0s 4d ; in hands of Secretary, £2 4s 2d. The stewards passed the following programmes : —Otaki Maori Racing Club, November 9th; Taratahi-Carterton Racing Club, November 9th ; Lower Valley Jockey Club, December 6th.