ULTIMATUM TO MEMBERS OF TAUPO SPORTS GROUPS

Taupo Times, Volume XIV, Issue 48, 22 June 1965, Page 3

ULTIMATUM TO MEMBERS OF TAUPO SPORTS GROUPS

Taupo Youth Centre will issue an ultimatum to sports bodies in Taupo by way of a circular, to be sent out within the next few days.

Affiliated societies to the centre, the Taupo Indoor Basketball Association and the Taupo Badminton Club, will be asked to send representatives to a meeting to discuss the future of the fund-raising campaign for the youth hall. If the meeting is poorlyattended, the circular states, the centre will have no alternative but to recommend that the centre go into recess. "To refresh your memory, we are a committee appointed by you to organise fundraising campaigns for the erection of an indoor sports stadium incorporating two basketball courts and full facilities for badminton, gymnastics and other forms of sport. The stadium will include showers, changing rooms, | spectator seating, a kitchen and other ante-rooms. These are necessary facilities which you certainly have not got at the present. As this town of ours grows, the need for these facilities becomes more urgent," the circular added. The decision to send the circular was made at the meeting of the centre on Thursday, when it was also suggested by the president, Mr A. H. Armstrong, that the name "Taupo Youth Centre'* lacked public appeal and could be changed. He said a special meeting would have to be called for the purpose.

The circular will be sign- j ed by Mr Armstrong and ! the presidents of the Indoor Basketball Association and the Badminton Club, Messrs W. O'Brien and R. W. Wade.