PROTEST VO[?]

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 636, 14 September 1933, Page 4

PROTEST VO[?]

AMOUNT SPENT oi FOR BASKETM tournem not upheld bll A protest against anil 5s in the amount autliJ purchase of a trophyfj basketball tourney, -was« G. Steele at last eve* of the Rotorua BorougW Cr. Steele pointed I amount of £2 had been* the council for the pcrfl trophy; now they hadaS ' tion from the AdvanceJ tee that an expenditureB authorised. He did nottl extra expenditure of 9 justified without the « proval. A question of pfl involved. B Cr. F. Goodson n Steele. He did not thinil in which the increase ha was in order and he wodS Steele's protest on thesl Cr. J. Banks, chairniifi vancement Committee « was a very good reasorB crease otherwise the co™ not have had the temeriB the recommendation. S 'A CinderelliB "This Advancement (I the Cinderella of this 9 cil," said Cr. Banks, "iB on questioning everyt™ they may decide to haniB to someone else." ■ The committee had d

consideration, that tifl stereotyped silver cuporB no way typical of Rofl had accordingly decideiB Maori trophy carved. Tfl done through an arranjB by Mr. R. D. Dansey, the committee' and tfl trophy had been a wori:B splendid advertisement W .The trophy was the prcB council and could neverB right Everyone who }M trophy agreed that itT® piece of work and heW authority of the DirectorS School of Arts and CraW was quite £20 worth o'H The cost had been £3 'B the amount authorised* been considered that H penditure Avas more ttoB view of the value of theS Cr. E. T. Johnson s* Banks. The trophy v/ajB finest Maori works of adH in Rotorua. I The mayor asked ivhe* amount would come out* of the Advancement 0* Cr. Banks said that * understood that the M* been given authority t* funds according to itso* and he did not think * given discretion if it 7®* tioned on these matter!.* Cr. Steele's motion * to the meeting and lost * tbe voices. _*