"DO WE WANT IT?"

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 672, 26 October 1933, Page 5

"DO WE WANT IT?"

"the cinderella'; COUNCILLOR BANKS AND THE ADVAN CEiMENT * COMiMITTEE , ! JSUPPORT OFt SPORTS BODIES , j "The time is coming when we will have to decide whelher We wan't this lcommittee or not. If we dont, well we 1 might as well go back to an ordinj -ary country town. This oommittee, as I have said, is the Cinderella of this council and I think we will shortly have ta make up our min'ds whether we wiant it oi* not," .said Civ J. Banks at last eveiiinigfs' meeting of the Rotorua Borough Oouncil, when replying to a motion that two recommepdations of the Advancement Coftipiittee of which he is chairmian, should be ' deleted, " The two recommendations _ were that a grant of £15 " should be made toward the cost of ;a, dirt track* race meeting and that the Rotorua Swimming Glub: be guaranteed to tbe Oxtent of £10 against lOss on a swiittr ming carni'val " to be held ' during Chnistmas carfiival week. - : When th'ese two recommendations came up far discussion, Gr. G. Steele . moved that they both be deleted. He failed to see why thfe council' 'should be expected to support the' aetivities of every 'sports body that 'cared to apply, * ~ * Cr. Goodson supported Cr. Steele , and seconded the motion. He did not | think that these clubs should expect | th'e'council to;stand any loss.that thoy rinight make.. ' s -..iGr." E. T, - Johnson said tbat the > commii'ttee considered that these aetivities- would all assist the t carniyal. The -comimittee could . not itself arrange eritertainmeuts every day .and it Considered that the best way to fili in the proigramriie was to assist other bbdies to "stage attractions. * Or. Banks1 said * that the money would come out of th'e. Advancement Gommittee's allocation.' "'..■'* Cr. Goodson: But we don't want •a. debit balance at the* end 'of ; the • year.' We had it last year you know*. The** motion "tlilalt th)e clauses *'b"e deleted was lost on' the:voicesr