Milk Company Profit And Town Hall

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29766, 8 March 1962, Page 14

Milk Company Profit And Town Hall

The general committee of Town Hall Promotion has presented a moderate but convincing argument for consideration of the claims of a town hall when the Christchurch City Council allocates its capital profit on the sale of the Christchurch Milk Company shares. The association makes an excellent point when it says the identity of the proceeds of the sale should not be lost by dispersion among a number of relatively minor projects. In spending a windfall of £lOO,OOO the City Council should try to get something of lasting and recognisable value to the whole community; and where could it find anything

better than a town hall? Citizens have already shown by their generous voluntary contributions that this is a civic amenity they believe Christchurch should have. The committee has also properly drawn attention to the fact that the whole of the metropolitan area helped to build up the milk company asset, just as the whole of the metropolitan area will benefit from a town halL If the City Council adopts this reasonable proposal a. capital sum of £300,000 wiil be in hand for a town hall, which brings the project out of the distance into the near future. That should be an exciting prospect for citizens as well as for councillors.