SPORTS CLUB TO BE DISSOLVED

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31830, 7 November 1968, Page 12

SPORTS CLUB TO BE DISSOLVED

The Pioneer Amateur Sports Club (Inc.) has been dissolved. This decision was passed unanimously at a meeting of the club last evening.

However, at a special meeting of the Pioneer Sports Club, Ltd, which controls the financial aspects of the organisation, it was agreed that the club rooms will be available for hire during 1969. The club • was established for cycling, later added motor cycling and mountaineering, and finally began assisting all amateur sporting bodies in any manner possible.

In recent times, mainly because most sporting bodies had built their own rooms and facilities, the club has been dormant.

“For the last couple of years I have been the president of nothing” said the chairman, Mr R. W. Geoghenan. Mr G. S. Weir, proposing that the club be dissolved, said that the longer it continued the less money there would be available for charitable donations to worthy

sporting bodies. A further loss of $l2O had been sustained since the last meeting held three months ago when it was agreed that the club should go into recess. During this period, letters had been sent to affiliated bodies asking for any constructive suggestions for the use of the club and its rooms. Mr D. C. Morse, a delegate of the Canterbury Mountaineering Club, said that his club would want to use the club rooms for weekly meetings and “get togethers.” He proposed an amendment to Mr Weir’s motion asking that the rooms be made available to sporting bodies, but the meeting found that this was not necessary. It was agreed that the letter Mr Morse held be forwarded 'to the company. A further meeting must be held in another month to ratify the decision to dissolve the club.