TENNIS IN HAMILTON.

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17836, 8 October 1929, Page 9

TENNIS IN HAMILTON.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —“Straight Deal" talks straight and he expresses sentiments held hy many. The Hamilton Domain Hoard administers valuable endowments, many of which are bringing in excellent rents. Is it not reasonable to expect that those rents should be expended in providing facilities for all kinds of .sport? Why should a sports club be called upon to pay rents and rates for public grounds? As “Straight Deal” points out, the clubs have to face a lot of expenditure in entertaining visitors and in defraying the travelling expenses of their members, and it is unjust to expect them to dip their hands deeply in their pockets for the enrichment of a public body to enable it to pile-, up funds. I was surprised to learn that the members had to finance the putting down of the courts. It is for that sort of work surely that the funds of the board should be available. I would respectfully point out that in putting down the courts the club has improved a public property. That fact should be rocognised and the cost placed against the claim for rental, admitting (which I do not) that such claim is a legitimate one.—l am, etc., STYLO.