LANCASTER PARK.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18406, 12 June 1925, Page 15

LANCASTER PARK.

SCHEME FOR ERECTION OF NEW PAVILION. BOARD OF CONTROL'S DISCUSSION. At last night's meeting of the Lancaster Park Board of Control, Messrs A. Dey (chairman), "W. Simpson and R. B. Ward reported on a scheme (which they had formulated) for selling seats at Lancaster Park for tho purposes of financing tho building of a pavilion. The scheme was that the Board erect a permanent' pavilion at the Park and, in order to finance the work, tho public be invited to subscribe the sum of £SO for each seat. For each £SO so paid th,e paveo or subscriber should be entitled to one seat on the pavilion so erected, subject to the following rights and privileges:—

(I) The subscriber ehall be entitled at all times during his life, withmt payment (provided he has not transferred his right ae hereinafter provided) to admission and accessto Lancaster Park, and to all- sports or other gatherings held there, and to occupy the seat on the pavilion ai allotted to him by paragraph 2.(2) All seals shall be allotted by the Board in the rotation th.it they are sold or subscribed for; (3) the pavilion shall be erected in such part of the ground as the Board deem most suitable; (4) subject to the sanction of the Board being first obtained, the subscriber or subscribers may sell or transfer at a price not to exceed £SO, a seat, the seat or seats leld by him or them, but in case of «, proposed sale, the Board shall have the first right to buy the seat or seats at a sum not to exceed £&} a. seat; (5) in case of death, tho holder of a seat or feats shall be entitled to disnoao, by his will, or the seat or seats ro held at the data cf his' death; (6) in crse of intestacy, the administrptor of any decmsed holder may likewise sell or transfer the seat or seats, but either of the above two ca-ee3 (5 and 6) the transferee muat be first approved of by the Beard; (7) pending the erection of the pavilion a seat or seats shall be allotted to tho subscriber or subscribers in tho present members'. stand; (8) all mowys received through the sale of eeats shall be earmarked for the purpose of erectins: a permanent pavilion, and until required shall be naid into a apeciil account with the Post Office Savings Bank, or other Bank on fixed deposit.

Mr Dev said he had been told that the pavilions at "WimMedon (Endand) had ,be*n erected .on. the sane scheme. 1 Mr W. H. Winsor onrwsed the principle of the scheme. IL> said he was thinking: of what the Board would lose in 10 or 12 years' time. \ Mr Dev said that the administrators of the two principal snorts—cricket and football —wern satisfied with the scheme and would like to see the stands up as soon as possible. Personally, the v chairman continued, he would like to see 200 £SO seats sold and £IO,OO0 -'put up. / ' Mr W. R. Patrick suggested that £SO be -paid; for a man's seat and £25 for a woman's. He thought £so'was rather cxnensive for a woman's seat.

. Mr Dey said., in * reply to "a question, that a start with the erection of the stand would be made when 100 seats were sold, for then the Board wpuld have in hand £SOOO.

The chairman went on tn say that the most important' thine was the raising of enough money to build a stand; the position in which it would l>e built would then be thoroughly discussed. The Board at the present time had to confine itself to the question of raising the money. : •. * , • Eventually Mr "W. Simpson ■ moved that the.report be adopted. Mr'E. B. Ward seconded the.motion. As an amendment, Mr Winsor, moved "That before tho Board goes on with the scheme it obtains 50 members within, twelve, months." r>4Mio- r aDi«ndniont .wns-carried-.--Tho motion was then put and carried unanimously..