HALL OR PARK AT STANLEY BAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19604, 5 April 1927, Page 12

HALL OR PARK AT STANLEY BAY.

Sir, —I desire to voice my protest at ■ the action of the Stanley Bay Improvement. Association in passing a resolution that portion of the hall funds be used for the formation of croquet and tennislawns. The moneys in question wers-t----raised.with but one object in view, the building of a lialL or community room, the need of which was then greatly felt at the bay, 1 where tor many years past the only room available for any kind of gathering was the Methodist Mission Hall. - At the time of my residence in Stanley Bay it was decided that an effort be made to gather funds for the erection of such a building as previously mentioned. A strong and most energetic committee was set up. Permission was asked for and obtained from the borough council to hold a carnival, which was duly ~ held, and from which effort, and subsequent, efforts, the whole of the amount in question was raised. Application was then made to the borough council for a site at Stanley Bay on which to build the hall. An inspection was made by the then Mayor, Mr. H, S. W. King, the chairman, Mrs. W. Luxford, and members of the works committee, the borough engineer, councillor H. Linder and myself, of a certain site. This site was later given to ther Hall Committee on which to erect ,a building. Since that time, however, opposition to the original • scheme has been forthcoming, resulting in long delay, and finally a resolution is tarried to utilise the fund in another direction. As the chairman of the original Stanley Bay Hail Committee,- X feel I would be lacking in my duty,, to those who worked so hard to build up the fund, to those who gave, with the idea that they were helping in the building of a , hall, to the then members of the Devonport Borough Council, -who gave the site," and permission to hold a carnival if I did not at this time enter an emphatic protest against the actions of those responsible for the carrying of such a reso-. lution, which may truly be termed a breach of faith. I take consolation, however, in the fact that the chairman of the meeting was not a resident of the " hay when the fund was originated,' and. lam led to hope that nope of the original , members of the committee were responsible for the canvassing of residents to attend the meeting and support the resolution, as without such canvassing the 7' ' resolution would not, I feel sure, have*' been carried.; GIECy JS*: ffrytßCfl*