TOWN HALL CONTROVERSY.
(To the Editor)
Sir, —The Mayor and Councillors will probably find the whole public pleased with the council’s determination to redecorate the interior of the Town Hall and bring its appointments up-to-date. At the same time the public is alarmed at the proposal to lease the hall for a period of 15 years. The council might well hesitate to paTt with it even for five years. With our limited power of fortelling the future, it seems folly for Cambridge to make a contract, which places the Town Hall in private hands for the lengthy period of fifteen years. It is to be hoped that the council will reconsider the matter before it is too late.
It is noted “that the proposal provides that two days in each, week, plus twelve extra days in the year, are to bo reserved by the council.” It would be reassuring if the Mayor made a statement that for such days the old rates of hire would be maintained, and that no extra payment would have to be made to the lessees for lighting or otherwise.—l am, etc.,
THE BARD, Cambridge, July 2d, 1927.
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Waikato Independent, Volume XXVII, Issue 2814, 26 July 1927, Page 4
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