CITY RESERVES.
QUESTION OP CHARGING FOB ADMISSION. The 'Wellington City Empowering and Amendment bill emerged from the hands of tho Local Bills Committee yesterday, and was returned to the House of Representatives with a recommendation that it bo allowed to proceed. Tho Rill is so altered that its trainers would hardly recognise it. 'The intention of the Hill, as dratted, was to authorise a charge for admission to certain of tho city reserves for not more than thirty days in the year. It a/so. authorised a charge for admission to tho Newtown Zoo. Tho committee has struck out Newtown Park from the list of reserves, in respect of which a charge may bo made for admission, and a special sub-clause authorising a charge for admission to tho Newtown Zoo has also been struck out. The Bill provided that tho charge for admission to sports grounds should not exceed Is. for persons over fifteen, Cd. in the case of porsons under that age, children. seVcn years of ago to 1m admitted free. The committee has made the charge.ls. for persons over'l4,'persons under that ago to be admitted free.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1543, 12 September 1912, Page 4
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187CITY RESERVES. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1543, 12 September 1912, Page 4
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