COST OF GOLF

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 79, 3 April 1926, Page 23

COST OF GOLF

"There is^too much talk about finance and not enough about golf in the club," said a member of the New Plymouth Club at its annual meeting, when a proposal to go in with sports bodies in the town in a big art union to provide funds to pay off tho (overdraft was being discussed. "If we can't play *ur golf—a game that i 3 supposed to be played by gentlemen— without having to resort to disgusting raffles and the devices used by some clubs, then we ought to be ashamed of ourselves," he continued. It is a moot point, of course, which is innately the more objectionable, an overdraft or an art union. Lucky clubs have neither, but all have a financial problem, especially in their youth. Kanui needs more members' subscriptions to carry out course work which cannot otherwise be (tine, and to encourage new membership the first fifty who sign on this season will have their entrance fees remitted, and ■ will remain permanent members, if they so desire, without a later payment of more than their annual subscription. If this : nun/jcr is secured Eanui, which has not progressed as rapidly as it should have done, will no doubt go ahead rapidly.