No Privileges Sought By Golf Assn

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31780, 10 September 1968, Page 18

No Privileges Sought By Golf Assn

Although the Canterbury Provincial Golf Association is prepared to assign the lease of 300 acres of Harewood land to a properly constituted golf club, it will not seek any special privileges from the club. The management committee of the association, which decided last month to take up the lease from the North Canterbury Catchment Board, discussed the question of the association’s involvement in the venture last night. Mr C. J. Ward said he felt it would be a retrograde step if the association had a vested interest in the proposed new course. “I think you have got a golf course nearly floated and, when it is, the association’s role will be completed —except to protect the lease until it is signed," he said. Mr M. W. Atkinson said the association should take up the tease In Its own name and assign it to the club when It was properly constituted. In that way, he said, the lease would be protected. Mr Ward was also opposed to the association seeking special rights from the proposed club "Once you have got a right you have not an obligation," he said. Mr I. Jory said It was too soon to discuss the question of rights: the matter should be held over until the club was formed. But a motion by Mr Ward that the association

should not seek any special privileges from the club was carried. South Island Tournament.— The secretary (Mr G. W. A. Green) reported that the proposal to bring the dates of the South Island Inter-provincial tournament closer to those of the Freyberg Rose Bowl contest had found favour with the Southland and M'd-South Canterbury associations, but had been opposed by Otago and Buller-Westland. The committee decided to support the retention of the original dates, March 2 and 3, 1969.