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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 58, Issue 4194, 9 June 1939, Page 4

Diffidence as to the value of the service to be rendered to the district by Te Awamutu Sports Council was expressed by the president, Mr G. R. Lawry, at (Wednesday evening’s meeting of the W®ipa Hockey Association. Mr Lawry said that at the inception of the scheme he had been very enthusiastic about it, but in view of recent action by the Waikato Hospital Board he questioned the idea of establishing another body with similar power of levying rates. He thought it very probable that local ratepayers might be saddled with additional costs by a body which did not share their burdens. Saying that although the personnel of the Sports Council was not yet known, Mr C. J. Spiers expressed the opinion that the nominees of local bodies would be fully alive to the necessity of safeguarding the interests of ratepayers, and that if the members were reasonable they could do much to develop the facilities of the district without taking the action Mr Lawry feared; bqt that in any case it looked very much as if they had no say in the matter. That, said Mr Lawry, was the very point he did not like.