DONATIONS AND GRANTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3804, 12 June 1928, Page 2

DONATIONS AND GRANTS.

MAYOR. URGES CAUTION. That curtailment of expenditure with a view to keeping the rates down must be the policy of the Council in future was the note struck by the Mayor (Mir. Perreau), at last night’s Borough Council meeting. An application had just been read from the local Plunket Society, asking for tile usual annual donation to its funds and the Mayor said that it wms time the Council made a start to cut down its annual subscriptions and donations and made a determined endeavour not to have rates raised next year. The only way to accomplish that was to curtail unnecessary expenditure. There wms no suggestion that the Council did not want the town to progress but it could not afford to keep on raising the rates. The Plunket Society was a very deserving institution and worthy of support and he w r ould like to see the Council make the usual donation this year. Next year, however, when the Council might possibly be able to do something for the Society in the way of a building, he hoped further donations from the Council would not be necessary. Cr. Walker asked if the Society could do unthout the grant this year. The Mayor: They are doing good work and as a member of the Advisory Board I know that they have not got much funds in hand.

Cr. Cowley said the donation did not amount to 1/- per week and the Society was doing excellent work in connection with child wmlfare and the children wrnre the citizens of tht future*. He was of opinion that the donation should be made this year as usual. The Council decided to grant £2 2s Od this vear as previously.