£13,900 From Golden Kiwi

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30411, 9 April 1964, Page 20

£13,900 From Golden Kiwi

(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 8. Grants from Golden Kiwi lottery profits totalling £13,985 were announced today by Mr W. A. Stevenson, chairman of the recreation and youth activities distribution committee. At a recent meeting the committee considered 145 applications for assistance. Fourteen immediate grants totalling £13,185 were approved, and a grant of £BOO previously approved by the committee was confirmed because specified conditions had been fulfilled. Eighty conditional grants ] amounting to £39,690 were:

also approved, said Mr Stevenson. These grants would not be paid until the projects they were intended for had been completed, and a statement of money raised and spent on the work had been supplied to the committee. Mr Stevenson said organisations seeking assistance should raise two-thirds of the cost of a project before applying. A grant approved by the committee would not be paid until the project had been completed. As a result of the meeting, seven applicants were asked to apply again when twothirds of the cost of the project had been raised, eight applications were deferred for investigation, and 35 were declined. Conditional grant confirmed: Omatua (Hawke’s Bay) Girl Guide Property Committee (to buy property for training use), £BOO. Grants for immediate pay-

ment: Girl Guides' Association (for loans to groups to finance halls), £6000; Elsdon (Wellington Ist scout group (den), £150; Taieri (Dunedin) Tennis Club (netting and posts), £100; Wakatere (Takapuna) Boating Club (engine for rescue boat), £5O. Wellington City Council (Freyberg swimming pool), £3330; Morrinsville Borough Council (swimming pool), £1000; Birkdale (Auckland) Indoor Sports and Gymnasium Club (judo mat), £3O; Patea Combined Sports Clubs’ Committee (floodlighting), £300: Amateur Swimming Association (water-polo team tour of Australia), £250. Morrinsville Rugby Union (purchase of land, promotion of schoolboy Rugby), £450; Amateur Wrestling Union (tour of India), £750; Papatoetoe District Cricket Club (promotion of schoolboy cricket), £75: Suburbs and Districts (Auckland) Cricket Club (promotion of schoolboy cricket), £100; Northland (Wellington) Memorial Community Centre (completion of centre), £6OO.

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