'Skylab' for sports teams

The lease of the Kelburn Park 'Skylab' Pavilion has recently been signed by the Students' Association Sports Council. The prime users of the top floor area of the pavilion covered by the lease will be the cricket, hockey and soccer clubs. This does not mean that other clubs, both sports and cultural, will not have access to the pavilion facilities. But the cricket hockey and soccer clubs have priority.

If other clubs wish to use the social and committee rooms in the pavilion they will have to fill in application forms at the Students' Association Office and send one copy to the Wellington City Corporation and another to the Pavilion Management Committee which comprises members of the three clubs. Both the Corporation and the Management Committee have the right to refuse usage but the Corporation is unlikely to do so unless there are exceptional circumstances. A club may appeal to the Students' Association Executive against a decision by the Management Committee.

The total contribution from the university for the pavilion was $35,000 although the original estimate was $12,000 in 1968 when the pavilion scheme was first suggested. The Students' Association's contribution was $12,000 of which $8,000 is on a long term, low interest loan to the cricket, hockey and soccer clubs.

The pavilion lease represents a major extension of facilities available to campus clubs and it is hoped that full advantage will be taken of them. The cricket club which took 20% of the Sports Council's grant last year with only 20 students members at that stage, should be considerably boosted with access to the pavilion facilities.