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Grey River Argus, 19 December 1940, Page 3

.Blanket Society wrote soliciting a donation towards its funds.—-On the motion of Mr Smeaton, seconded by Mr Carroll, it was decided to donate £5.

The Greymouth Surf Life Saving Club wrot e asking for a donation towards the erection pf a reel-house on the Blaketown beach. —Mr J. Muicare moved that £5 5s be given. He said that h e approved of the Society most heartily. Mr Kent said the club instructed its members in resuscitation, which was also most useful knowledge in cases of electrocution. The chairman said that th e Board was quite satisfied as to th e worthiness of the Society. Mr Parfitt seconded the motion, which was carried. The Greymouth Technical High School wrot e asking for a donation towards its prize fund.—lt was decided to make a donation of £2 2c, as usual.

Mr Mulcare. said thaf there was another High School in Grey mouth which had never received a donation, the Marist Brothers’ High School. 1 Mr McKpne said h e never opposed th e giving of such a grar f t, but one school was public, whi]e th e other was private. At one, he said, pupils paid, and at the other free tuition was given.

Mr Mulcare saifl that tj],e tuition at the Marist Brothers’ High Sch.Q ol was free to thos e who could Kot pay. As to thpse who did pay, good luck to them.

Mr McKane, said that the school had not applied for a grapt. Mr Kent ; said that if Tyfr Mulcare were digging up cases deserving of donations, the Board wou'd soon be a benevolent society. Ther e were thousands of deserving cases, but they had neyer asj<ed for donations. Mr Mulcare: They didn’t know about it. Mr Kent: They will now.

Mi' Mulcare remarked that he had always supported Mr Kent’s suggestions in IJiis regard. Mr Kent: I didn’t ask you io. You supporter] them on thejr merits. The chairman said that th e Hospital Board had not asked for an annual donation to the Christmas Cheer Fund. He proposed that a donation of £5 5s be made to them. Mr Smeaton said that the Board would be only too glad to receive a donation. It had not askep fop a donation because of the large number of calls alread.v on th e , public. ' The Board received from rile Grey Countv Council a request, from the Education Board, for .the installation of a lamp outside the gates bf the school at Blackball.

Mr Mulcai’f, said the position wa c that the number of lights allocated to the Countv Council to be erected in Blackball had been uspd. so that obviously no more could he erectedThe Council had referred the Education Board’s request to the Power Board in the hope that the extra light would be erected as a donation. He did not himself want tp create 11 precedent. Mr Smeaton said that theyCountv Council couldj supply the light by paying £4 per annum fo” it. _ If a light were given a<s a donation to on e local body, other bodies would have to b P treated the same. It would be wronp Io make a donation to one section of the community when other sections would have to pay for their lights. Mr Mulcare said that a light was erected free outside the Kotuku School. The chairman sa’d that that instance had been different. Mr Mulcare: I know it was different However. I do not want to argue about it. If th P Board does not want to rngke a donation of a light, the County Council', even for the sake of the school, will not make a fresh account, or alter the previous arrangements. If the Board ’s not prepared to do anything in the matter, the Council is not. Mr Smeaton moved that the letter he received, and that no action be taken. ~ Mr Kent seconded the motion. He said that if a donation were made, the Grevmouth Borough, after exceeding the number Of lights allowed them, could refer the matter to the Power Board. There were nranv schoo’s in Greymouth deserving of. lights. The matter was purely a County affair. The motion was carried.