BEACH IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2674, 20 December 1923, Page 3

BEACH IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE.

COMMITTEE’S REPORT. We are in receipt of the annual report and balance-sheet from the Foxton ' Beach Improvement Committee for three years from November 30th 1920 to 30th November, 1923. The receipts for the period total £397 14/7 and the expenditure £565 1/11, leaving a debit of £167 7/4. The report states that five committee men are responsible for the overdraft at the bank. The items of receipts and expenditure are arranged to explain themselves; no amount has been charged or paid to any member of the committee for labour. The committee desire to expess their thanks to the following for donations of material and labour: Mr Linklater, five barrels tar; Adam Burgess, ironwork; D. Fabling, ironwork; A. Clark, signwriting; H. Hartley, carting and labour; Beach residents, labour; Mr Brown, care of trees; Foxton Borough Council, gravel; P. Pedersen, labour; donors of various material for life, saving reel; Captain Larsen, care of hall; Mr R, Brace, auditor. As the chairman will not be at the Beach during the coming holidays, Mr C. 11. Whitehead has been appointed deputy chairman to arrange sports and receive all money, etc., also Mr. D. J. Lovelock to take charge of the tennis court to raise some revenue, to wards the cost of upkeep. Want of funds is the committee’s big trouble to undertake anything progressive, while the debt on the hall exists. To mention a few things that should he put in hand if we had the money, the hall entension needs painting, another chimney for the school, some lining inside the hall, more conveniences for the public, open up the old entrance on to the beach: so any donations would be very acceptable. The debt incurred extending the hall for a wise, as the school attendance has risen from nineteen to thirty-two regular pupils in twelve months; and with opening after school holidays 1 lie number is expected to increase to forty-five.