Gentlemen,
Your committee have the honour of reporting the work of the
year ending
The activities of the club of a social nature were the
entertainment of its members at the Lincolnshire Agricultural Society’s Show
at Louth in June and a Motor Rally with eliminating tests at Skegness in July.
Some difficulty arose with the Agricultural Society owing
to their having placed the parking arrangements in the hands of the A.A. instead
of the R.A.C. as in previous years. Apparently it was not appreciated by the
society that it was not reasonable to ask the club to park its Members Cars in a
Park run by a rival organisation. Fortunately when the position became known to
the committee towards the end of May, enquires were immediately instituted and
it was found possible to secure a field for a separate Park near the showground.
Considerable protest was received from the society upon the point that the club
would be detracting from the natural income of the society. The committee
promised to take this point into consideration and after the show a donation of
£15.0.0. was forwarded to the society and gratefully received.
In spite of this experience the Society have made similar
arrangements with the A.A. for the show to be held at Spalding next June but
they have been good enough to allocate a field near to the show ground for the
club’s car park which will be run by the R.A.C as before.
The service of tea and refreshments in the Club’s Show Marquee retains its popularity, the number of teas being served being the highest on record.
The Skegness motor rally was thoroughly successful, the eliminating tests arousing great interest by the public and the dinner and dance enjoyable events. The entries however were slightly disappointing, accounted for by the date clashing with a motoring event in Nottinghamshire. The Committee have taken the precaution of a much earlier fixing of the date with the Skegness Council and is already published in the 1937 fixture list published by the R.A.C. It is therefore hoped that a repetition will be prevented.
A number of members have taken advantage of the Club's Legal Defence, which has functioned very successfully, in one particular instance recently where a conviction by Boston magistrates was reversed by an appeal to Quarter Sessions, was pressed by the Police to the High Court when the appeal was upheld with very strong censure by the presiding judges. It also produced the following remark by the Lord Chief Justice “Blessed are the Ratepayers for they shall pay the costs” the sympathies of the club are certainly with the Boston Citizens in this instance.
In conclusion your Committee again asks the assistance of the members in still further strengthening the club by the introduction of new members; the Committee have made a great effort by the reduction of the subscription but so far the anticipated result has not been achieved, as previously pointed out the central bodies maintain a continual canvass whereas the Club depends entirely upon the Committee and the goodwill of its members.