WAIKOUAITI HEALTH CAMP

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27196, 27 September 1949, Page 6

WAIKOUAITI HEALTH CAMP

Sir, —I notice that the Waikouaiti Racing Club has now notified the Education Board that a decision to adhere to the terms of the lease had' been reached. Apparently this means that .the club will be willing to deal • with the matter in the year 2002 which, according to Mrs Macdonald’s statement, is the year in which the lease will expire. By that time the club will assuredly have had full value out of the buildings and will then be content to hand them on to the Health Camp Association, which is not likely to be any longer interested. The club may be on safe ground from a legal standpoint, but on the evidence so far published, its decision offends most people’s sense of fair play. It seems that not only would it not take advantage of the opportunity given to it to purchase the buildings, which obviously it wants to . retain, but it also refuses to allow the Health Camp Association to sell to anyone else. For the sake of the hitherto good name of the racing club, it is time that the members who do not approve of this course tools a hand and got this decision reversed or saw that the club said something in its own defence. Otherwise the public will be left to conclude that the spirit actuating members of the club has suffered a serious decline and that their case is so weak that they dare not risk publication of a statement. —I am, etc., Fair Play.