SOCCER FOOTBALL FEES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16711, 22 April 1925, Page 9

SOCCER FOOTBALL FEES.

COUNCIL REDUCES CLAIM

OFFER OF HALF FEES ACCEPTED,

The somewhat protracted dispute between the Poverty Bay Football Association and the Borough Council with regard to the fees ehargcablo for the Childers road reserve was drawn to a conclusion >at tho Council meeting last evening, when the Council agreed to accept a cheque for £l2 10s in full settlement of the original account for £25. The matter had been in dispute since the, close of last season, the Association contending that the Council had charged double the amount agreed upon at tho commencement of the season.

The Mayor said that a letter had been received offering to pay £l2 10s as full settlement of the account. He thought they would be doing the light thing by accepting the £l2 JOs in full settlement and moved in that direction.

Cr. Todd seconded tho motion. He thought the Football Association had had a very good case and he had pleasure in supporting the motion. Cr. Bickford maintained that the Council was right in its charges for the reserves. Cr. Todd always had tho idea that the Council was wrong and the other side right.

Cr. Hill: We must be in the wrong somewhere. Personally I don’t think they should be charged as much as they are.

Cr. Corson said that the letter asked that the £l2 10s be accepted because their finances were low. The Mayor said that Cr. Bickford was right when lie said that the charges made were correct. Cr. DeCosta: Half a loaf is better than no bread, but wo must not let Hi is create a precedent. Cr. Collin said that it was a business proposition. The Association had known-what- they had to pay and expressed thanks for the deal they had got. Piece then they had found the Council was lax in somo.respects and the Reserves Committee had got tired of discussing the matter. It was up to the Association to find the money, and he did not think the Council were doing the right tiling in accepting half the money. It was creating an undesirable precedent. > Cr. DeCosta: We must stand to our guns in future. The Mayor said ho agreed that care should be taken to enforce agreements in the future.

The motion was carried, Cr. Collin alone voting against it.