PUBLIC PARSIMONY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2128, 21 April 1914, Page 5

PUBLIC PARSIMONY

AN INDIGNANT SURF OLUB,

Tlia ■economies] spirit displayed hy the 'Wellington public on tho occasion of the gala condu.otod at. Lyall Bay on Easier Monday by fte SJaraftui Sttff and Lifesaving Club was severe:!.) , ' commented upon in & letter from, ttmt body which jvas before the City Council last evening. It Wa§ stated that although" some tsvo thousand people .attended $ 10 SfiH tho cofetien ttikoii «i> rtalise'd only'£2 7s. 2d., and the function resulted in ftconsiderable loss to tho club. Tins did not giyo rtluoh onemirftgeineftt t© awango any sjjiiilar function in futvi'fo. It was felt that the indifference'iisplftyetl by .tht public teltttlfid. tbo activities of the club aiid would justify -it in deleting those classes from its rules luted to life-saving.' This would relieve Members of the. cM( from Spending heurs at- a timo on the beaeh «n lifesaving duty. Finally the olnb a.s>kcd that hi recognition ol its services to the public and tho loss ovftr tho .gala, the council should make iff A grant of £10. Councillor E. 'fVegcar moved that tho grant asked for should bo granted without prejiidteo aud withoei establishing a'precedent'. The club, he said, did useful service in patrolling tho bench and in providing ftr-r tho safety of bathers* ami deserved to be e.nemirti£ed. M. F. Litckio said, thaitr this was only omo ef it. mi-mbcr of instances in ffjiidli the Wellington jMibtie had ■withhold si!:piK).rt from a body KrlticJi s-orvod its iiiterests. The duh imprttved tho attractions of Lyall Say .ittid roiidered a ditoet sorvico id eltizeus, aftd tlie least the cotinoil could de was to grant tho suni asked for.

ii, was decided ihat the- sirm ef £.10 shouid Ito graiited to the dub.