NEW HALL PROPOSED

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 98, 11 August 1944, Page 4

NEW HALL PROPOSED

RED CROSS SOCIETY'S PROJECT

HARBOUR BOARD'S PROPERTY

SOUGHT

Waiting on the Whakatane Harbour Board at its meeting last week, Mesdarnes W. Sullivan and WiniJ stone representing the Whakatane Branch of the N.Z. Red Cross Society requested the Board to grant one of the four sections opposite the new post office site on the Strand; Extension on which to build a Red Cross Hall, and asked that the Board grant it the section free of charge until such time as the Society intended to build a shop, or shops, for lease within five years. The hall was required as a training room for Voluntary Aids and for Red Cross "Headquarters for the # district, also would therefore be used for the benefit of the community. The Board after a full discussion passed the. following resolution:' — "That the Whakatane Branch of the N.Z. Red Cross Society be offeretl Strand extension corncr section of 12 perches, approximately, which section adjoins Mr Patterson's section, at a rental of £40 per annum and usual lease conditions—that rental be remitted for the first five years or such shorter period until shop or shops are erected and let, whichever is the sooner, and provided also that the Borough Council remits rates for the same period up to five years that Board remits tal—that alternatively Whakatane branch of the N.Z. Red Cross Society be offered the lease of section 8 Commerce Street of approximately 11 perches adjoining the proposed Borough Council reserve at a rental of £10 per annum, other conditions as above."'