SOLDIERS' CLUBS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 130, 28 November 1940, Page 19

SOLDIERS' CLUBS

WORK OUTSIDE CAMPS

REQUESTS FOR GRANTS

REFUSED

The question whether patriotic funds should be used to build soldiers' clubrooms outside military camps was raised at the meeting of the Wellington Provincial Patriotic Council at Wellington yesterday. The council rejected the application of the Upper Hutt R.S.A. for a £ for £ subsidy for a clubroom, to be used for entertaining soldiers from Trentham. The scheme would cost £1100.

The chairman, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, opposed the application on the ground that the calls upon the funds for overseas patriotic purposes were too great and too urgent to permit expenditure upon this project. This view was held by other members also, and the request was rejected. Later in the meeting, when it was proposed to make a grant of £100 for furniture for a clubroom at Bulls, Mr. Hislop raised the same objection, holding that the principle was the same. It was pointed out that the clubroom at Bulls was erected by local efforts to entertain Air Force men from Ohakea.

Mr. A. E. Mansford (Palmerston North) said there were already luxurious social facilities at Ohakea, and any expenditure for an outside clubroom at Bulls, two miles away, was unnecessary,

This request also was rejected,