"A BURNING QUESTION"

Chronicle (Levin), 7 October 1946, Page 4

"A BURNING QUESTION"

LIGHTS AT PARK DOMAIN * ' ' ' s t - Lights at the Levin Park Domain afe a "burning question" with iriembers of the Levin Combined Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club, and much time was occupied at its annual meeting last week in discussing ways and means of having them repaired in time for the club nights, which commence on November 5. Introducing the subject, the president (Mr. W.' Cribb) said that the light wouid have to be restored to order eyen if the club had to foot th§ bill itself, as a full programme of events could not be run off j from 6.30 p.m. until darkness fell. Mr. F. D. Chainey informed the meeting that the council was willing to pay half the cost (£30)' if the sports bodies who used the lights would subscribe the balance. The council had already spent a large amount of money at the domain this year and had made no provision in its estimates for repairing the lighting. Mr. E. J. Stanley, in moving a resolution that a deputation from the club wait on the council, said it was the council's duty to keep the facili.ties for sport in good order. It was grossly unfair to expect a sports body, which collected its money in threepences and six-. pences to foot a bill for £30 to repair property which it had not damaged and did not own. The club's money had been collected to provide worthwhile -trophies for competition and the encouragement of athletics and cycling, not to repair lights with. "If the council will not accept the responsibility, I would sooner pay it myself," concluded Mr, Stanley. In supporting the resolution, Mr. W. Marks pointed out that the aim of the club was to encoufage youth to keep fit. He said that evidently some people were under the impression that the committee of the L.C.A.A. and C.C. were there for what they could get out of it, but the sooner the council and citizens generally realised that sports bodies existed to improve the physical prowess of the young'er generation, teach them to lead clean and moral lives and providepastimes for their leisure hours, the sooner the necessary facilities would be provided. Other members spoke in support of the resolution and upon being put to the meeting it was carried unanimously. The deputation which the council will be asked to receive will comprise Messrs. W. Cribb,- W. Marks, E. J. Stanley and J. H. Cooper.