ATHLETIC PARK

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1561, 3 October 1912, Page 3

ATHLETIC PARK

KEMIT THE HATES? IMJGBY UNION AND COUNCIL. The. Wellington City Council will be asked very shortly lo remit the rates due respecting Athktic, Park. Tlie boilv which- pays the rates is (ho Wellington liugby Union, which body has a short leas? of the ground, and. as most people know, nws it -,\s the chief of the city's Uii'jby grounds. The rates (bus payable by the union amount to about. iiiO per year, and the union's pui-u is rather inclined fii eot vacant just at present the ltuahv Control is goincr to ask the City Council lo remit the rates. Movement in this direction hni> hepu made before., but tho union has bcmi | mat .with au. mav.er,.tQ thtiffeet tint tb»'

™J iUl ''' '""' "" I , ""' , ' , to remit swl) 'I'lif L'n«l)j- Union liai Hot had a cmid si'iison tlii-i ye;if, anil, ni hivl lii-ilii"-liifctuiJT. tin" waller of μ-iih n«kitr; f<uii i-emin-ioii of rales \v;is mentioned. - Mr. W. l'err.v tliat I lie emillnl should be j, t .|iti»nv<t to Mi> thiMimo,, in the matter, and. if neecvnry, de[iut.>-Iloiij.-P(l on Hie M |Lii,..-t. Hi. iviVrred '■■> fSwliim (i'j of tin, "jjaiinj; Act-, winch "On tlu iielit-ion of any person for the ivnii-siiin of rates on Iho [(round Hi cxtvenii. pciverty ... or oilier cau>v lii-yimd the roiiiv,,! o f sucli i»>r■H'n. lln. local mifiu-rity may .- . . remit the ])a.vnu'iil of any - rates liy the i)|.tili,,i,er, either wli'-illy or iii ii.-irl. or for -urti time ;i< lliw lwol iiiillwrity thisili- iii." Jlr. I'eirv t.hen nipii'.ionrd Section 27 of the Amendment Act, mid, which run? as follows:'"I'lic iiowcr to remit rales siven liy Section 09 of (he principal Act may be e.xereisod in the r»H- of rales ... in ve.-pect of land held Hy amlxuly of pcrsotis exclu:.ively for th« purposes of ;uiy nnldoor spurt, and not for profit or -mm." The. union considers that the term "oxIrenie poverty" ean bi- ajiplied ill Uieir m=o. and they claim that. I hoy hold (he jiiirlc for the of n ,<port ''and not for prolil or jjain." ■ 'J'hp union resolved to petition the City Council, and apiiointcd ilcssr«. ]'.. 0. ]ralc< (cliiiirman). W. i'erry (trn.-»,iroi;, and \Y. ti. Tnlbot (sciTotury) to draft ihu pelilion. The J{U!»by Union's action, it is worlh adding, is prompted partly, if not wliolly, by a desire to !:epp Alhieiic Park lor amateur Utigby.