NO TENNIS GRANT
Lyttelton’s Decision
A plea by the Canterbury Lawn Tennis Association to the Lyttelton Borough Council for a grant for the upkeep of Wilding Park was rejected by the council last evening.
The association’s secretary (Mr J. 0. Young) claimed in his letter to the council that, without the park, “tennis players throughout Canterbury would be deprived of a very great asset.
“Not only do tennis players have the benefit of these facilities, but members of the public from far afield,” said Mr Young. But the chairman of the council meeting (Cr. R. H. Duff) said he knew of two tennis clubs, unaffiliated to the association, who had been refused the use of the park in the season just past. “This doesn’t look as if the park is for the use of all the public,” he said. A motion proposing no action was passed without dissent.. The association has been. promised £250 by the Christchurch City Council for the i upkeep of the park, provided | other local bodies make similar grants in proportion to their population.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30438, 12 May 1964, Page 1
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