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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