‘Essential’ Halls
A community hall was as essential to a community as were roads, lighting, power, water and drainage, Mr M. A. Connelly, member of Parliament for Riccarton, said when he opened the $24,000 Russley community and school hall on Saturday. The hall, with supplementary rooms and a supper annex, will be used for school groups and assemblies during the day and for community activities at other times. “Social institutions such as this, which are used for social, educational, cultural and sporting activities, save the money spent on them by turning out good citizens, thus minimising the expenditure necessary on gaols, borstals and the judicial functions of a country,” Mr Connelly said. “Failure to provide such amenities as this in a community because of their cost is only a ‘penny-wise, poundfoolish’ policy,” he said. About 150 attended the opening.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31519, 6 November 1967, Page 14
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