PLUNKET ROOMS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 1 April 1930, Page 13

PLUNKET ROOMS.

ANNUAL RENTAITOF JEMt. | CITY COUNCIL'S DECISION. *An annual rental of £2o© is to he charged the Plunket Society by the City Council for the use of the eM fire station in Chester street. Reporting on the matter to the Council last night, the By-laws aad linaiw Committee stated:— The committee has carefully geee iato the question of thi finances «T the Plunket Society, and is of opinio* tlru an annual rental of £3OO shoaM be charged to the Soeiety for the use of the Plunket buildings. It is eatnaatg»i that the annual cost of interest.•»{ sinking fund to pay for the alteration within a term of 14 years \riQ fa* approximately £260 per annum, bet *o view of the good work rendered t*"lh* community by the Society, and the ft«* that it is .practically maiatanMNJ fey voluntary contributions, and. farther, that the Couneil bas power coder th* Municipal Corporations Act to in this connexion, the committee recommends that the £6O, "being the 4ffference between the rent and the ■s*- . tcrest and sinking fund charges, fee mtt by the Council. The Plunket Society has agreei *» control the public lavatories -hi " the building for a term of twelve meaths, the position to be reviewed at the expiration of that time. The" Society «tK make no-charge for the control, feat will be entitled to receive the semNT front the slot machines. The committee has iastroeied the Clerk to. take the aectsmirj ahqpe .to; obtain, the sanction of the Leaal Government Loans Board to the nUbe of a loan of rup to £3000,-to cexfcr the cost of. the/alterations ami thVi»--cessarr resolution will be seisnitfcmVfc* the..Council at its next-mcetlaf. - The report-was adopted.- -■ ■-