COMPETITIONS SOCIETY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1763, 30 May 1913, Page 5

COMPETITIONS SOCIETY.

i NO MUNICIPAL DONATION. Some debate took place at the City Council last evening before the resolution of the Finance Committee recommending that the application of the Now Zealand Competitions Society for a donation of \£so bo declined, was adopted. Councillor T. C. A. Hislop moved that the committee's recommendation should be referred back for further consideration, and urged that some very strong reason must exist to warrant the refusal of a grant wliioh had been authorised in previous years. Tho society, he urged, had justified the support which had previously been acciorded it, and was an institution well worthy of the committee's support. Councillors E. Fletcher, J. Fuller, junr., ■, and J. E. Fitzgerald supported Councillor i pislop. . Councillor E. A. Wright strongly objected to donations of this kind wliilethe city had no money for drainage. The society had drawn largo audiences to its competitions. Had the public, or tho council. seen a balance-shcet ? I "Not to my knowledge," said the Mayor j (Mr. J. P. Luke). Councillor A. IT. Hindmarsh recalled 'the'fact that on one occasion he had only beon able to get a small vote of J!3O from tho council in the case of the widow of a corporation employee who had been eighteen yeaTs in the service. The Mayor at this stage was handed a copy of tho balance-sheet of tho socicty, tho principal items of which ho read out. Ho 6aid that he was entirely opposed to the society's application. Councillor Hislop's amendment was lost. Two sheep farms in the Wairarapa for gale or exchange are advertised by Messrs. Miller and Entter. A portable school has been built in twentv-four hours at Ellington, North* umberland. The material was brought by mil from London in fifteen packages. There are two class-rooms divided by a cloak room, and there is plenty of air ppaco throughout. Coal stoves are xisea for heating/ and tho question of drainago has not been overlooked. Sixty-five bcholars aro beinjj tauglit in the school already. The cost of tho structure was .£•100. '