MR. HARRY THOMPSON. OF COKER’S.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 992, 11 March 1909, Page 21

MR. HARRY THOMPSON. OF COKER’S.

Harry Thompson, the genial host of Coker’s Hotel, Chr’stchurch, is generally known throughout New Zealand as an ex-crack cyclist. He probably holds more records than any man in the Dominion. Take him as a horseman—the big jumps don’t frighten him much. There are few better four-in-hand drivers ; n the Dominion than Harry Thompson, and if there happens to be a diversity of opinion in this respect he will not have far to go to find a backer or two. As clerk of the course to the C.J.C.- he is always well mounted, and keeps his end of the game up all the time- He also manages to be an efficient starter for five or six racing clubs, and up to the present date his work has not been questioned. Harry is Trumpet-Major of the

C.Y.C., and has served in that corps for twenty-six years. He now proposes to devote h s energies to making a success of Coker’s Hotel an.id if he can put hair as much energy into that enterprise as he has expended in vo.unteeriag and sport, the hotel should be a success.