TAKAPUNA JOCKEY CLUB.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 660, 2 October 1902, Page 16

TAKAPUNA JOCKEY CLUB.

On Mdriday night the annual meeeing of the members of the Takapuna Jockey Club eventuated. Mr E. W. Alison, occupied the chair, and the attendance was good. The annual report was read as follows During the past, season three meetings were held, extending over seven days, stakes amounting to £5600 being paid away, as against £5290 for the previous year, an increase of £3lO. The amount paid to the Government as totalisator tax amounted to £BBO 9s 2d. The total receipts amount to £BBO3 5s Sd, a falling off of £B4 2s 7d, as . compared with the previous year, leaving a balance to profit and loss account of £827 13s Bd.' According to the rules three members of committee retire annually. This year the •retiring members are Messrs A. Alison, G. Lankham and C’aptaiin,' yJoyle, who, Coing eligible, offer themselves for reelection; and are the only nominations - received.

The. balance-sheet is as follows :—Dr.: Sundry secured and other creditors, £12,316 Is 9d ; bank overdraft, £l7B 18s 2d ; balance, £1685 9s 7d ; total, £14,180 9s 6d. Cr. : Racecourse, and other properties, buildings, plant, etc., £13,600.; office furniture, £5O ; sundry debtors, £529 9s 6 ; cash in hand, £/l ; total, £14,180 9s 6d. '

Profit and Loss Account.—Dr. : Stakes, £5600 ; salaries and wages, £9ll 19s 9d ; rents and interest, £567 12s 8d ; printing and advertising, £251 49s (id ; catering, £17.2 6s fid ; rates and taxes, £99 19s 7d ; legal expenses, £95 16s 2d ; band, £49 ; insurance, £2B 16s 9d ; petty cash, £24 13s ; carting account, £ll 13s 6d ; painting, £l5 9s 8d ; horse covers, etc., £7 4s ; donations, £3 3s ; stationery, etc., £6 17s ; racing conference, £7 ; tools, etc., £l6 10st; timber, £7 17s; seeds, plants, etc., £3 9s hire, £4 5s ; , delegate’s expenses, £l6 ; hurdles, £8 16s ; sundries, £65 3s lid ; balance profit for year, £827 'l3s 8d ; total, £BBO3 5s Bd. Cr. :

Totalisator (£5270 6s 4d, less Government tax, £BBO 9s 2d), £4389 17si 2d , gates, booths, etc., £1973 8s 6d ; nominations and acceptances, £1587 ; •subscriptions, (fees, etc., £918; grazing, £l5 ; total, : £BBO3 5s Bd. The Chairdhan moved the adoption of the report and balance-sheet. In doing .so he, said he was pleased to be able

to congratulate members on the satisfactory nature of the reports submitted. The racing -at each meeting was firstclass, the finishes generally being such ■ as to satisfy the most fastidious sportsman. The attendances were large and the weather favourable, the high reputation the club has gained < being fully upheld. The receipts, as compared with last year, showed a falling off of £B4 12s 7d ; the expenditure showed an increase of £335 18s 7d, of which )£3lO was accounted for by increased stakes. The total stakes paid away was £5600, as against £5290 last year. The club’s winter meeting was conducted under a disadvantage as against the previous year, in that there was no public holiday on May 24. The surplus of receipts over expenditure for the year amounted to £Bl7 13s Bd, being £420 Ils less than the preceding year, chiefly owing to the increase of stakes, which placed the club in the position of being sixth on the list of the whole of the clubs in the colony in respect of the total sums paid away in stakes. The club had leased for a term of twenty-one years about two acres of land adjoining the saddling paddock from the Devonport Borough Council, which would enable the club to extend its saddling paddock when required. The ground was now being cleared and would be available this season. The course and surroundings were in splendid order and condition and a credit not only to the club, but the caretaker, who deserved a word of praise for the manner in which he lad carried out his duties. The motion was unanimously agreed to, and Messrs A. Alison, G. Lankham and Captain Coyle, the retring members of Committee were re-elected. .Mr J. Mays proposed a hearty vote of thanks to the chairman for the energetic manner in which he had carried out his duties,‘j and.for his continued interest in the welfare of the club. In acknowledging the vote, which was unanimoutly passed, Mr Alison said that it was a great, pleasure for him to be associated with the Takapuna Jockey Club. A very nice feeling existed amongst rhe members of the committee, and their gatherings took more of a meeting of old friends than anything else. He trusted that the success of the club would continue, and he assured them that he would do everything in his power towards that end.