REDUCED GRANT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20041, 2 September 1920, Page 2

REDUCED GRANT.

ciry council and progress league. *ss~s£& S 1 srs a 04S 1 * 0 “‘«^ , J, n , re P° rt ’ n g that the CiW Council to d fl, deC med lo reinstate' tbe.fnll grant A. G. Hendersosaid that it, had been suggested that ii the recent deputation had spent a littl more time with the council and W’ more obsequious.- it might hare'receive move consideration... Ho did not believ that himself. Ho did not feel for i«n U ]br •, r at buß ‘T who "’ere devol mg then time and doing work of provir cial and national importance should hav to go cap m hand to any local body ft- .. support,. He said' this because it ha' 1 been suggested that the deputation aaopted tbe wrong attitude. Hie speakers had been brief and they had explained the position clearly. He now wisher to express his disappointment, not at the tact that the leagnb had failed to. get the money, but that its request had been turned down very curtly, almost without a word of apology or regret. It was satisfactory to he able to report that the Heathcote Countv Council had de-

cmea to gram an additional £l4. Hi also believed that when a. deputatioi waited on the "W aimaivi County Counci it would be sympathetically received.