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QUESTION OF PATRIOTIC • • DONATIONS. "That tho Labour Day Celebration Committee be informed in reply!'to their request for' the. free - use of. Newtown Park on .Labour Day iii consideration of their offer to : donate half the Wt proceeds to the War 'Distress Fund that the proposal cannot be entertained in Such form, and the park will be granted on the usilal conditions—£2o for fullday, meeting or £15 for half-day meeting, or as an "• alternative 20 per cent, of the gross gate receipts." . Such was a recommendation to' the- City Council last night by the Reserves Committee. Councillor Barber said that tho committee might meet the Labour; 'Day Committee if they offered • half tho gross receipts, but they 'should protect the publio when "net" proceeds were spoken of. Councillor Luckie ' said- that .in some of these cases where; the council had forgone their charge the proceeds had been eaten up in management expenses, .find the relief funds did not benefit. Councillor Hutcheson moved as an 'amendment that "the concession-should be' made provided' at least £20 was donated to the War Distress Fund. The clause was amended in;tbat direction, and carried.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2533, 6 August 1915, Page 3
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192NET OR GROSS RECEIPTS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2533, 6 August 1915, Page 3
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