CHRISTMAS SPORTS.—A SUGGESTION.

Kumara Times, Issue 2578, 9 December 1884, Page 2

CHRISTMAS SPORTS.—A SUGGESTION.

[to the editor.] Sir—Now the discussion on religions aid to the Hospital may be said to be closed, with your permission I will make a suggestion to the Hospital Committee which, if carried out, may realise a considerable sum for the benefit of the Hospital. The gentlemen who met and failed to form a sports committee have left a splendid opening, which the Hospital Committee should not be slow to take advantage of, and initiate a programme of some kind of out-door amusement for at least one day in the forthcoming Christmas holidays. If some local sports are not got up, there will be a stampede from here to the races and sports held in outside places, and the few left behind may possibly die of ennui from the effects of the solemn dullness which will hang over Kumara. Making a low estimate, if the Committee makes a sharp canvass of the district at once, and hold one day’s sports, with a concert and ball in the evening, they should take a third as much as was taken out last Easter—equal to about £7O. This, with the small credit balance, £2B Os 3d, shown at their last meeting, would tide the institution on till something better turned up. Thanks' to my friend “3. B. S.” (whose initials may stand for “ Sawny Solomon Scott ”) for his timely cheer.—Yours, &c., S S December 8, 1884.