STATEMENTS OF THE POSITION

Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 11, 26 March 1952, Page 4

STATEMENTS OF THE POSITION

Sir, — Through your columns I should like to correct a mis-state-ment made by a correspondent to you in the last issue, regarding the R.S.A., Memorial Hall. The £4,300 donated by the public during the Queen Carnival was for "a Memorial Hall and Club-rooms,, not, as stated, 'Memorial [Cluhwrooms." Had the latter been the case, comfortahle club-rooms would have been erected ere this. However, in keeping faithwith the public the R.S.A. found that the cost of a hall — of a size suitable for the needs of Taupo, now and in the future — and club-trooms, would far exceed the amount raised. It was therefore duly resolved at a general meeting of the R.S.A. on 15th. January 1951 "that the money in the building fund be vested in the Town Board" in order that it would qualify for the Government subsidy on War Memorials. This, and suhsequent action, was explained by the Chairman of the Town Board at a public meeting m Rickit's Hall on 8th. November 1951, when some two or three hundred members of the public were present. The Taupo R.S.A. Executive is always willing to answer to its members, at a general meeting for anythink lacking in the organisation. — I am, etc.,

G.

PATCHETT,

President, Taupo R.S.A.