£10,000 FOR SECTION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23592, 28 February 1940, Page 12

£IO,OOO FOR SECTION

| AREA IN GARDEN PLACE I ____ ■ ' • WAIKATO WINTER SHOW OFFER f ' —; [prom our own correspondent] ! V v -■ HAMILTON, Tuesday An offer of £IO,OOO for an area of land in Garden Place, Hamilton, formerly suggested as a site for a Town Hall, is to be made to the Hamilton Borough Council by the Waikato Winter Show Association, as a result of a decision reached at a meeting of the executive committee of the association to-day. The association stipulated in its oiler that the land should be free of rates for 10 years. If it succeeds in acquiring the land, the winter show association intends to use it for extensions to its present buildings. The land, which is almost an acre in area, has been the subject of considerable controversy in recent years. When the Garden Place scheme was first evolved, a suggestion was made that a Town Hall should be built on the site. This proposal, however, was rejected by the council. Plans for its use as a transport terminal were drawn up last year and ratepayers were asked to approve the raising of a loan for £10,500 in order to make use of the area for civic purposes. At a poll last November the loan proposal was rejected.