Council sets a new rent for the croquet club's ground

H*eading: LOCAL GOVERNMENT DALBY TOWN COUNCIL*

*Newspaper: The Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette*

*Date: Tuesday 19 May 1942, page 5*

*Found on: [Trove](https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article285945358), National Library of Australia*

It was recommended that all sporting bodies operating on the council's property be put on the same basis, and that the old principle of requiring interest and redemption payments to be made coinciding with the council's commitments for loans, together with maintenance and insurance and so on, be abandoned, and that a new principle be established that will take into account the present debt owing, and fix rentals on that basis. If this recommendation was adopted, it was suggested that the following rentals be fixed: Dalby Bowling Club, £52 per annum; Dalby Croquet Club, £16; Dalby Rugby League, £15; Dalby Cricket Association, £5; the Bowling and Croquet Clubs to maintain the properties to the approval of the council, as in the past, the Dalby Rugby League to maintain the Sports Ground improvements, except the picket fence and preparation of the playing field for the game of cricket, which will be the responsibility of the Cricket Association. It was recommended that these new rentals operate from July next, except in the case of the Croquet Club, which will commence from January 1, 1943.

The article as it was printed in The Toowoomba Chronicle, 19 May 1942. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)