A GRANT OR NOT?

Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1931, Page 4

A GRANT OR NOT?

jSWIMMING CLUB’S-FINANCE.

SCHOOL COMMITTEE DEBATES' QUESTION.

A protracted discussion on the question of assisting the Hokitika Swimming Club took place at the meeting of the District High School Committee last evening. “I see by the ‘Guardian,’ said the Chairman (Mr Armstrong), that Mr Lawn, at the annual meeting of the Swimming Club, said that' 1 a large number of school children were unable to swim, and that the Club was going to make great efforts to teach them the art. The Club is in debt and it is up to the School to help them.” He suggested that they make a donation, as their own finances were in a healthy position. “I move that we give them a straight- out grant of £10.” The Secretary (Mr Conning) said the Club was not looking for grants, so much as for the children to help them in the matter of selling tickets for their forthcoming concert. There were admirable ways in which the School could devote the money to its own interests.

Mr Breeze was mot in favour with the motion. The Swimming Club had not been a financial success. “Let it be handed back- to the Borough Council,” he added. The Rector (M,r Measles) said he understood the Club’s deficit was £4O which it whs hoped to partly defray by a concert. The Club had been un* fortunate in the weather it had experienced in past summers. If the Club' would arrange for definite hours where* bv the school could have set times to themselves, he might send the children down in groups regularly. He did not think the Committee should give a donation. If the school could have the baths to themselves, it would mean ;that the- Chub' wou t ld sell season tickets to the children, and thereby improve their revenue. “I consider that the time spent in the teaching, of swimming is profitably spent, ho added.

The Chairman: My idea is to encourage it. Mr Shannon: Encouraging- the children to go would improve their finances. This Committee must coiisw-e its funds, even although it is sympathetic. The Chairman .moved that a grant of £5 be made, and that a further similar grant be considered later in the season. M .,

I Mr Breeze: It is time for the Bor- ' o ugh Council 'to take it over and let the citizens do their bit. 1 The Rector: We have not been asiced for a grant,, only for assistance. It is not as if all the children who go ,to the Baths are from this school. W© cannot be philanthropists in ft wide sense. j It was decided that the Chairman ' and the Rector should convene wjth the Club’s officials and report to the next meeting.

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