SWIMMING Centre Calls For Report On Finances

Press, Volume C, Issue 29695, 13 December 1961, Page 14

SWIMMING Centre Calls For Report On Finances

Against a background of dwindling finances and mounting costs, the Canterbury Swimming Centre discussed its need for a more assured income at its first quarterly meeting last even ing. After many expressions of concern about the centre’s position, the meeting formed a sub-committee to bring down a report on the financial affairs of the centre and to make recommendations. The members of the subcommittee appointed were Messrs C. E MacDonald (convener). S Williams. D |W. Cain, L. S Julian, C F Dann, and D. M. Stuart Mr Cain said the centre’s finances were in a bad there was nothing to come and go on. For the last three years the centre had been living from hand to mouth, agreed Mr E C. Stentiford. who was in the chair. Many good ideas arose from meetings of the management committee, he said, but they had to be curbed because of lack of money. The treasurer (Mf MacDonald) said the centre ahotfid have a hard and fast income on which to rely each year It wa§ a gamble, he said, to run the centre or. £5O and hope for a profit from the Canterbury championships As a suggests on he said affiliation fees could be eliminated and a lump sum instituted in their place the amount being graded according to the circumstances of each particular chib. The centre had never been wealthy, but had been on a comfortable footing in the past, said Miss D Brown It had been able to make out on the profits from the* Canterbury championships of the previous season: now the centre had to rely on a profit from the current season’s championships. She urged the sub-committee to discover the reasons for the centre’s present unhappy financial state.

A proposal by the Wharenui club that a coach be appointed by the Canterbury selectors to join the Canterbury team to the national championships as assistant manager gained the support of the meeting The proposal, in the form of a motion, was carried by 15 votes to 12 The president of the Wharenui club (Mr Cain) presented the Cain Memorial Cup to the centre. The handsome trophy, to be awarded to the “Canterbury Swimmer of the Year.” was given by Messrs D.. N., 1., and L. Cain, in memory of their mother Accepting the cup on behalf of the centre, the president (Mr M R. Duckmanton) said the trophy would provide added incentive for competitors to reach a high standard of attainment. Six New Records Ratified Six fresh Canterbury senior records were approved by the Canterbury Swimming Centre at its first quarterly meeting last night. The times ratified as records were:— Senior Women. 110yds butterfly: Miss S. Nicholson (Spreydon). Imin 27.25ec. December 2. Miss Nicholson Imin 25.55ec. December 9 110yds breaststroke: Miss C Hopper (Spreydon). Imin 33sec. December 9. 220yds breaststroke: Miss Hopper. 3min 19.6 sec. December 9. Senior Men.—lloyds freestyle: R. Blair (Spreydon'. Imin o.9sec. December 2. 110yds backstroke: G. Elmsly (Fendalton), Imin 11.7 sec. December 9. Blair’s record was set up during the swimming of the Bryce Cup relay at the Spreydon carnival. He started with the gun and was timed by three watches. Rewards Paid— Rewards totalling £6500 have been paid out by 11 big London clearing banks in the first year of their joint "beat the burglars” campaign.—(London, December 12.)