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  1. Programme Director, Noel Brown resigned, effective Friday 3rd Feb. As reported on GAP Facebook page.
  2. As part of an owners group, we were offered tickets for the "restaurant" very late in the day, in fact it had closed. The owners bar closed very quickly due to a back up of events and only one drink was available, when we arrived, 6 champagne flutes only were on offer! Amazing, considering this club has been around for 100 years and once was the premier of the racing scene and sales..Tragic really..I've been to Trentham races since I was a child and can't believe how it has deteriorated as in appearance and service! However once again, on the day, Tom Wood was brilliant and I'm sad to hear he's moving offshore, but what else can he do...??? And yes the food truck offerings were a delight. I noted food being transported between marquees uncovered, wonder what the food police would have made of that, even in my day back in the 70's we wouldn't have done that! i was horrified!!
  3. GAP Levin Kennels- nobody on site, alarms? stick ons? waste of time if no one to hear them. ...one fire extinguisher... no easy exits....NZGR clean up your own backyard before you start on trainers. Nothing has been done about this substandard kennel since it was purchased.GAP has done nothing with it either...None of the above adhered to in any way! Shame!
  4. GAP Levin Kennels- nobody on site, alarms? stick ons? waste of time if no one to hear them. ...one fire extinguisher... no easy exits....NZGR clean up your own backyard before you start on trainers. Nothing has been done about this substandard kennel since it was purchased.GAP has done nothing with it either...None of the above adhered to in any way! Shame!
  5. The "issue" was Leadership and Communication; and are these not subjects for constant review in a healthy organisation? Or is it "My way or the highway" in a toxic one - GAP, for instance? Denis Putt is a very easy going guy, also highly intelligent and wouldn't take issue without good cause. Also, nobody is going to be keen to take up the role... quite a close knit area... What on earth will the Programme Director do now???? Falling on sword would be the honourable thing, but I doubt that is high on the agenda of this man of inaction aka Bulldog Bulliboy
  6. ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST Taranaki GAP Regional Coordinator resigned today - at the invitation of the Programme Director, after a disagreement. How many more will there be before the board takes notice? Taranaki volunteers/owners very upset and disappointed.
  7. JesusHChrist on a crutch, isn't it it time Greyhound Racing pulled the plug and cut them loose....perticularly those of a certain central kenne
  8. Forget contacting Noel - go to the Board Chair - Liz Lowndes. Noel doesn't reply to emails or phonecalls any more than the the Levin kennel manager does. I'd be surprised if the GAP board has any clue what goes on there. elizabeth.lowndes@xtra.co.nz
  9. Don't think there is much point in appealing to the Minister, he has no real interest or enthusiasm for racing....
  10. Well, that seems to have silenced Aquaman! Now we might be able to get back on topic, that's if anyone cares...
  11. never mind dog property, hope there are no children in at least 100k radius....
  12. You lot don't know the half of it! Yes, GAP was started with the best of intentions, but therein lies the stuff of it all- ambitious people take it over... doesn't anyone remember the Auckland SPCA fiasco in the 80's, and the Welly SPCA of the late 90's where all the money raised went to pay the (newly created ) salaried positions...see this happening here...also paying out all sacked Kennel Managers and Programme Directors, etc.... So who is paying for this???? Greyhound Racing? Or the gullible fundraisers who collect for GAP's annual appeal.. and the public who support it..and incidentally , how many of you people who have howled it down, have donated to this? Aquaman? Yankiwi?
  13. Sexual offences against young girls are a completely different category, totally reprehensible and inexcusable! End of story! Anything else pales into insignificance (except of course... murder, and I presume we are not talking about that). The convicted offender is a creep and is beyond defence, the other matter is before the courts so is undecided,,, let justice take it's course.
  14. Does call into question the Duty Vet, though, doesn't it?
  15. Does anybody know what is going on there? Appears to be many paid position changes, and volunteers and steadfast friends deserting in droves?