DAY'S BAY TENNIS COURTS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1914, Page 2

DAY'S BAY TENNIS COURTS

QUESTION OF LEASE. The inability to secure permanent grounds last season caused the Wellington Provincial Lawn Tennis Association a great amount of inconvenience, and with reference to this the association's committee reported to the annual .meeting last evening as follows : — "During the past season your committee has costinually had before it the important matter of obtaining permanent grounds for the association, > and has spent a, good deal of time on the matter. After the City Council had agreed to lease the Pirie-street Reserve to the association your committee invoked the assistance of a special committee of gentlemen connected with lawn tennis to report to the Management Committee on ways and means. The special committee went into the matter carefully and thoroughly, and its report convinced your committee that the terms of the draft lease submitted by the City Council made it impossible for the association to accept it. Although counter, proposals have been submitted to the City Council, up toHhc present the efforts of your committee have not met with success." A letter was received from the City Council, offering the use of the tennis courts at Williams Park, Day's Bay, "at a rental of £65 for the season." This amount was greater than that previously charged the association by the Ferry Company, and some of the delegates present 3tated that they had been in* structed to vote against any proposal to secure the lease, as the amount asked for rental was out of all proportion to the benefits which would be 'received. In view of the insufficient information available as to the conditions, etc., under which the grounds could be leased, a delegate moved .-—"That it be a recommendation to the Management Committee to secure a lease of the Day's Bay courts, if practicable." This was seconded, and on being put the voting was : For 9, against 9. The Chairman thereupon agreed "to let things stand as they are." No recommendation was therefore made from the delegates.