Mid Antrim annual meet to take place

THE AGM for Mid Antrim Combine will be held in the Harryville HPS on Wednesday 17 March at 8.00pm.

Two delegates from each club to vote on proposals.

Resolution No 1 – Submitted by Harryville HPS

The Mid Antrim Combine remains as it is now with no more clubs being accepted.

Resolution No 2 – Submitted by Harryville HPS

All birds competing in the Mid Antrim Combine must be race marked through which clubs the owners fees are paid to the Mid Antrim Combine. NIPA Classic & National races where the birds are marked in Centres. Birds competing in Mid Antrim Combine must be paid through clubs where the owners fees are paid.

The NIPA held a final Committee Meeting prior to racing, stationary and Diplomas have been distributed to each member club. Randox from Crumlin attended to show the proper procedure required to take drug tests involving feather and crop swab samples and the relevant paper work. They will supply a working list of banned substances and Randox will be leading the way with this new technology that is also raising interest not only with the RPRA but also the German and Dutch Federations. Help will be supplied to clubs to enable them to submit an official copy of the Race Result by Fax over Saturday & Sunday which will hopefully enable a result to be made available on the Sunday evening to be used in the pigeon publicity over the next week. An important part of all this is that clubs use the new Transporter Envelope to be handed to the driver on the Friday night collection. A properly signed cheque enclosed and filled out on the front of the envelope giving entry details, crates, members and birds competing etc. All information will be logged and cheques got ready for the bank early Saturday and everything in place waiting for club results on a Saturday evening. The Transporter Envelope is not to be mixed up with anything else, it alone with cheque and all information filled out handed to the driver during collection. No envelope or cheque supplied to the driver, no collection the following week.

The wages which were frozen last year are to be raised this year as per the rate of inflation, the unwritten rule regarding tape recordings of meetings is to be introduced and brought forward to the AGM.

Past Presidents have always in the past been kept involved when leaving office and Owen Donnelly from Larne has been included to the Vice President list.