MIRAMAR COURTS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1932, Page 8

MIRAMAR COURTS

LONG STANDING DEBT

A DIFFICULT POSITION

The City Council again'last evening'discussed means whereby it might obtain payment from the Wellington Lawn .Tennis Association of £2393 spent by the council some years ago in laying, down sixteen hard .courts at Miramar. ■:■-,

Councillor F. Meadowcroft, chairman of the Reserves Committee, said: that.,the area, on which the courts »were. laid -had been leased from the council to the association, at £100 a'year. The cost of the hard court. construction was: £2393, and though the association had met the yearly rental it had not paid for' the work of laying the hard1 courts and; moreover, had said ; that at - present it had •no : chance of paying for that work. In all, the association had spent about i £13,000 on" the area, including £2300 for a pavilion, .which was on the-association'siown.land.- ,The association officials' said that unless the association, got. a permit, for,, an.art union they had no chance of paying for "the hard courts, "There is not Buckley's chance of an art-union," added Councillor Meadowcroft. '. ■'■'■ "■ ■'■■' ■'■"■■■■•'-•. .•■.- " '-"•;.■;

The Reserves Committee, he said, wanted the money, and proposed that the council should realise; on the: property. ■ I£ the council had the hard courts it could let eight of them at £25 per annum per court, and no doubt others could be let as well. X was not proposed that the grass courts should be taken over, and the matter of charge to the association" wduld be a mat; ter for- negotiations-! ' .' i v ; -The Mayor:-"Ate you-proposing to terminate the lease as to a part or the whole? Xou cannot terminate .a :lease in part ■'■'■ Mr. Hislop.said that the lessees had saved the council a good deal in-tte amount they .had put into the courts. It seemed rather hard to act as - was proposed. -The lease, the rent of which had : been paid, took no.cognisance of the spent by the Council; It,would be better to confer with 4he; Tennis Association. He suggested .that the clause be referred back ' It was agreed that the Mayor and Coun-i cillor Meadowcroft; should rmeet the association and- report later ;to^he:Council.