SALE OF PRIVILEGES.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 182, 21 December 1881, Page 2

SALE OF PRIVILEGES.

On SaturdayTMr. G. M. Snelfon, tol^ •byaiikfcnthe^pmileges of tb.e,'M«ia-_ watu , Racing Oi^Vs cpming meeting. The attendance -was good, and the bid-, ding spirited. The following are the. ;p.rices realised for the several privilege* : '—The' gates, £77 10s, Mr. Walkley; cardß,;«s 108, Mr, Hart r No. 1 Publican's Booth, £20, Mr. Fenton; No. 2L> Eublicaii's ilbbtb, £10 lQa, Mr. Border: Refreshment Bqqjh No. 1, £4 7s 6d, Mr . Heaton ; No. 2, refreshment booth, Mr. -Heaton, £4JOs ;. Horse paddock, £3 1 2i. 6d, Mr. Green ; plating lace horee*, fis., Mr. ifordan; The total amount thui. realised is £126 AM land thus added to. -epmejfiieamojß fo.t^e credit fit the clnb , m- the bant, makes '- the hand'eome total ;fifj2S6;.^^eMhW%co^itt«ehaye reserved Ibjelright of, the v Grana- Stand^ which will realise a^ consfderaßte snm On the people nave . cause to congratplatft. the: Bacing.. C?om-. mittee on their^ersf prance and x energy . In tbi^f it ia qnty^^e toMcssra. Walkley, Batt, Kjng» aid Dangan v and . other gentlemen^ to ; «ay that but for, them the . whole thing : TfpnJd have been.wound up, and abandoned a short time since, by r«^ 1 solution of a mteting hsld^ m., the $«*%

Hall, and to the?? few gentlemen then, Is due the credit of resuscitating the Racir,g Club into life again^. and: placing it Vfmita present jso^uhdl^Bir -■"_