Stock Car Club considers expulsion of members

The Southland Stock Car Drivers Association is holding a general meeting to consider expelling nine of its members.

They include life members and past presidents. A public notice in The Southland

Times on Friday says a general meeting is being called for financial members of the association at the clubrooms on May 8.

An agenda item will ‘‘consider the expulsion of Steve Dryden, Susan Jones, Tiffany Dryden, Jeff Richardson, Megan Henderson, Steve Clements, Paul Renton, Tony Ladbrook and Campbell McManaway’’. Voting will be by ballot, the notice says.

Club president Nellie Stronach declined to say why the nine people would be considered for expulsion.

‘‘We have followed our internal procedures and have called a general meeting and [outlined] the purpose of the general meeting.’’

It is understood the club members facing possible expulsion had earlier requested answers to issues they had concerns about, during a special general meeting on May 1.

A newspaper notice prior to that May 1 meeting outlines a range of issues which were to be discussed, including a ‘‘burnout competition’’, which took place at its Sandy Point location, near Invercargill.

It is understood there was some fallout for the club from the burnout competition, and the nine wanted answers relating to this.

Other agenda items at that May 1 meeting were requests for a full breakdown of the club’s financial status and another was the ‘‘direction and future of our club’’.

Steve Dryden, a life member and one of the nine who will be considered for expulsion, declined to comment.

Another one of the nine declined to be named because he believed he would still be in the club when the vote was over tomorrow.