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Thursday, August 17, 1972
MORE GRANTS FROM SIR DAVID TRENCH FUND FOR RECREATION
Grants totalling over $332,000 from the Sir David Trench Fund for
Recreation have been approved to enable organisations to carry out recreational
programmes for the community.
The Governor Sir Murray MacLehose, gave his approval before he left
for Britain on leave.
This was announced today (Thursday) by the Secretary for Home Affairs,
Mr. D.C.C. Luddington, who is the ex officio Chairman of the Informal Advisory
Committee appointed by the Governor to advise him on the use of the Fund's
resources.
Individual applicants for grants will be informed of the Governor's
decision by letter.
The great majority of the grants are to initiate or foster new projects
and assist organisations which have been unable to obtain help from public
funds or other major sources.
Most of them are for the provizion of recreational facilities, sports
equipment, musical instruments and library books.
Mr. Luddington said: "In considering the applications, the Advisory
Committee has had to choose projects from amongst requests for funds which
totalled just under $11⁄2 million. The available income from the Fund this year
amounted to $332,850 so this was a difficult task and some worthy applications
inevitably had to be reduced or rejected."
He said