ROTORUA GOLF CLUB

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 791, 11 October 1929, Page 11

ROTORUA GOLF CLUB

PROPOSED INCREASES IN FEES AND SUBSCRIPTIONS MODIFIED SCHEME RECOMMENDED From Our Oxen Correspondent ROTORUA, Thursday. j Matters of considerable importance to members- of the Rotorua Golf Club, and to a lesser degree, to the many visiting golfers who patronise the club’s fine links, were discussed at a special meeting of the club on Wednesday eveninc. Mr. Wilkie, the president of the club, who occupied the chair, moved a resolution on behalf of the committee that the rules fixing members’ subscriptions and green fees be deleted, and that a new rule be substituted, making the following increases to the fees:—Ordinary members, from £ 4 4s to £6 6s; women’s fees, from £ 3 3s to £4 4s: country members, from £2- 2s to £3 3s; junior members, from £2 12s 6d to £3 3s. Green fees: One round, from 2s 6d to 3s 6d; one day, from 4s to ss; weekly, from 12s 6d to £1; monthly, from £1 10s to £2. In seconding the motion, Dr. Hay dealt with the advantages which it was considered the increases would effect, viz., in paying the interest and sinking fund on £4,000 raised by mortgage debentures paying 7 per cent, free of income-tax, the money to be expended in: (a) The building of a clubhouse to cost £2,800, with furnishings; (b) reticulatipn of all the greens for summer play; (c) bunkering and completion of course. After discussion the motion was put to the meeting and defeated on a ballot by 56 votes to 35. Mr. Downer then moved a recommendation to the committee that it ! consider the plan of increasing the subscriptions by half of the original ! proposals and correspondingly the proposed expenditure on the clubhouse be curtailed by a half. He stipulated however, that the plans of the proposed clubhouse be submitted to a general meeting for its approval before the rise in fees take effect. | The Rev. A. C. Randerson seconded | the motion, which, when put to the i meeting, met with practically unanimous approval. It seems, though, that the reticulation of the greens, an immediate requirement with summer rapidly approaching. is still a vague prospect of the future. Again, it is hardly likely that the proposed increase in visitors’ green fees will come into effect until well into next year, so that visitors may still be assured of cheap golf in Rotorua.