“TOO MANY APPEALS”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1938, Page 7

“TOO MANY APPEALS”

FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM COUNTIES. SOME CONCERN EXPRESSED. (“Times-Age” Special.) Concern at the ever-increasing number of appeals for financial contributions was expressed at today’s meeting of the Featherston County Council when the National Art Gallery and Museum Trustees asked the council to support a proposal to secure legislation empowering local bodies to make permanent annual grants towards the upkeep of the Art Gallery and Museum. The letter stressed the need for having a secured annual income. Last year the council made a grant of £2O. Councillor D. Cameron: “We should pull out of these things, they are increasing every day.” Councillor J. Carne Bidwill said the council . should be careful, as the amount of financial assistance granted was creeping up. The chairman, Mr A. B. Martin, said there was no harm in supporting the proposal provided the legislation would not make annual grants compulsory. Councillor R. Smith: “I do not think a meeting passes without an appeal of some kind or the other.”

Councillor R. W. Matthews said it did not seem right to him to spend rates on those things. It was decided to leave the matter in the hands of the chairman to ascertain the extent of the proposed legislation.