USE OF TOWN HALL

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 6, 2 October 1943, Page 4

USE OF TOWN HALL

A Syndicate’s Proposal A proposal is shortly to come .before the Wellington City Council that a small group or syndicate should) 'be given permission to reserve the Town Hall, when it is reopened in December, each Saturday night for three months, to be followed by an application for ‘Saturday night reservations for a further nine months, subject, of course, to cancellation should the hall be required for special purposes. The (proposal is that the hall should he used for dancing for those in the services and for civilians as a purely business venture, the promoters 'booking the hall, with the council's approval, in the usual way;' that is, it would ibe a venture in which patriotic organizations would have no share, either in management or in profits from such dance or cabaret evenings. , . , , The point which may be mainly at issue is whether the city council should enter into a contract for a long-term reservation of the city hall for wartime entertainment from which patriotic funds shall receive no benefit, but the question of making available alternative dancing space for non-profit service and social clubs, which have carried on in dangerous halls, is also regarded as important.