THE SOLDIERS' CLUB.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17179, 5 June 1919, Page 7

THE SOLDIERS' CLUB.

FINANCIAL POSITION.

QUESTION' OF NEW PREMISES. The financial position of the Soldiers' flub is reviewed by the executive of the Auckland Patriotic Association in the course of its annual report. This states that during the year ended March 51 last j £792 was received for refreshments, being £42 less than the cost of that portion of I the food paid for by the club. Tobacco I account received £46, giving a small profit i if nearly £3, while the receipts from billiards (£406) gave, the substantial profit] of £353. Wages, upkeep, rates, and in-1 surance accounted for £1050, giving a net i lota on the trading lor the year of £735. | The subsidy d £350 paid by the executive from the association. " fund, enabled the club to carry forward a balance of £69 for next year. 'Hie club continued to have the advantage of the free use of the Y.M.C.A. premises, and the voluntary assistance of the ladies who attended to the catering, and were in daily attendance. With the termination of the war, the tenancy of the premises was drawing to a close, and although a temporary extension might be looked for from the Y.M.C'.A. directorate, it was imperative that other premises be obtained immediately, if a Soldiers' Club was to exist in Auckland. Proposals had been made whereby the Auckland Women's Patriotic League would undertake the erection of a suitable building, and the City Council had provided a site in Anzac Avenue upon which to erect it. It could not bo expected that the club would be self.supporting, so that it would be necessary for the executive to continue to subsidise the funds for such period as the dub migl t bo required, which was estimated to be for from seven to ten years.