MUNICIPAL GOLF

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 181, 20 April 1918, Page 2

MUNICIPAL GOLF

AND THE ANNUAL TICKET. At Thursday's meeting of the City Council tho Deserves Committee recommended that the charge for the annual ticket for play on the municipal golf links at Berhampore bo £3 Bs. for rien aud £1 11s. Gd. for women. When tho recommendation was brought before tn'o council, Councillor W. H. S. Barber said that as these, links wore made for the purpose of encouraging people to take up golf ho thought tho charges mado who rather high. The charge was the samo as was made by n number of clubs who. offered nioro facilities than the council, which offered only tho baro links. He would like to uiovo that the fees bo ieduoed to £.1 2s. and XI Is. He was suro that the fee 3 as recommended would placo restrictions on. a number of people who wished to use tho links. Councillor M. F. Liwkio said that the whole thing was an experiment, and the idea of the committee was that they did not vish to weaken their finance by making the fees too cheap. It was true that these gentlemen who had been encouraging golf on their links had done good work, but it was felt-that they.would be defeating tho object for which the links existed if >the subscriptions were reduced to two and ono guineas. It was tho fooling of the,committee that by reducing the fees the number of active players would be so increased that the links would be overcrowded to the detriment of those players who could only play on Saturday afternoons and Sundays, • when it was the wish to encourage such fasual play.ers. As Councillor Barber did not press his motion, tho recommendation was agreed to by tho counoil without a dissentient voice.