GOLF.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16528, 21 May 1919, Page 8

GOLF.

NEW BRIGHTON CLUB DISBANDS

NINE-HOLE COURSE ON DRAINAGE

BOARD'S HANDS

A victim of the war i 3 tho New Brighton Golf Club, the membership of which has been 60 affected that the remaining members have decidcd to disband. The announcement of this step .was conveyed in a letter addressed to the Cirbtchurch Drainage EoaJd, the club's landloid, iu which the secretary (Mr E. J. Tayle. - ), said: —

"I regret to have to inform you that my club has been compelled to disband, as it itao not the iuuas lo enable it to curry on itr.y longer. Uhe position we find ouiseiveo in is duo entiiely to the conditions brought about by the war. Not only did enlistments and conscription taio most of our men members, but they took many young men v.-ho wou.d become merubeis unuer normal circumstances. The club has been kept going during ihe last two years by those who did not have to serve paying double subscriptions. Tnis was done in the hope that when hostilities ceased there would be an influx of new :iit>mlHrs, thus enabling the club to carry on. Upon entering the new year, which commenced on the first of last month, it was found that r.ot one male person applied for membership, and in the meantimo some members resigned. This left us with no alternative but to disband, as the income from tho present members is not sufficient to pay a groundsman. '•I would Ilka to draw your Board's attention to the fact that we are leaving a good nine holes golf course, properly equipped, uiso that we aro leaving assets amounting to considerably more than the amount wo owe the Board. Taking these facts into consideration, and also that our position is due tirely to misfortune, my club respectfully asks the Board to cancel the lease, and to relieve it from all liability und-:r the same. - ' The Board's secretary said the amount of rent'owing to May 2tth, 1919, wa§ £S3 6s 6d. When the letter was i-cc-eived by the Board the c'ir.hman (Mt Walter Hill) stated that v.'hat the dub was leaving wou'd <-i<silv recompense the Board for the rent owing, otherwise it could have recourse to the guarantors. The engineer '.Mr E. Cuthbert) said it would coot about £20 or £30 to repair tho fences. Mr H. J. Otley said the cottage would be worth more than Iho amount of rent due and ih* cost of the fencinsr. The chairman agreed, and said the club had spent .a lot of money on fencing. Members of the Board expressed their regret at tho club having to disband, but could «ee no wav of the club, except as chairman jocularly expressed it. bv members of the Board joining the club ard paying ten years' subscription, which mi"h*" keen it for another yenr. Mr W. J. Writer thought that perhaps tho B«-rd c'miM help fbe club. The chairman srii-1 the Board could not h<-lo the club, as it had al'eadv disbursed. It wn<! nnaiimnusly resolved to accede to the club's request.

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