CITY COUNCIL GRANTS £500.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15048, 16 April 1919, Page 4 (Supplement)

CITY COUNCIL GRANTS £500.

• . . , ,■- . April sth. ■ At the. meeting of the City Council i^st evening Messrs T. A. H. Field w?i' C^,J^ H"rley ' E.-J.''Allen, and ■Walter S. Snodgrass Svaited upon the Council as a. deputation from the Peace Celebration Committee to request a contribution up to £500 in the terms of the resolutions passed at the citizens' meeting held on the previous eveninoMessrs Field and > Harley: were the spokesmen. : ;

" When the ..mnt^v v:as considered •later the Mayor siiid that the commit tee as it •■■would 1^ constituted could be demnded ur»on r-t- to be extravagant, and it. .would ■ not- follow that "because money tvas available it - would be expended to fhe limit unless it was necessary; The'occasion was so great that .the clfibrats«- b> a worthy one, and he would like to see the Oouncil prepared to stand behind 'the committee np to -€1000. .Little, had been done for patriotic purposes by the Council, -out of r"tos.: nr»rl t]">is was sin occasion where the ratepayers., should ■stand behind the people in the way of finance. ' ■';.. ;-..

; After 3 isrll ss'ion,' it • was; unanitn--ously'.'resolved.: on t'^ motion of Cr's. T?out and HaT--iv>soi-i. :tha+ a sxrraup to .'jßflOtybe placed at the disposal of the !<]?elebrati»n Cornmittce. r ■ '