Spencer Park

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30979, 8 February 1966, Page 16

Spencer Park

Sir, —Your article on Spencer Park, in last Friday’s issue of “The Press,” provides food for thought. The Waimairi County Council has spent’ about £50,000 bn this park in the last four years, yet other reserves in' the Styx riding cannot even have the grass cut. With an outlay of £50,000, plus a caretaker’s salary of, I am told, £l2OO per annum plus overtime and dog allowance, the revenue produced would need to be about £6200 a year, or about • £l2O each week throughout the year, to make the place pay. Does it do so. or is the deficit made up out of our rates? Revenue from the shop cannot be counted as 1 understand that is run by the caretaker on his own account.—Yours, etc.. WHITE ELEPHANT.

January 11, 1966. [The chairman of the Waimairi County Council (Mr O. C. Mitchell) says: “Public reserves are provided for the convenience and enjoyment of the public, and naturally such amenities cost money. There would, I suggest, be more reason for complaint if a local authority was not facing up to its responsibilities and obligations in developing recreational areas within its area of administration'”]