Season tickets to increase to £1

A recommendation by the Band, Advertising and Parks Committee that for the 1947 season the price of the putting green season tickets should be raised to £1, and that inquiries should be made from other towns as to corresponding prices, met with objection from Cllr W H Short, at last week’s meeting of Bideford Town Council. Cllr W H Short said they as a Council had been doing very well on the previous price of 15s and to increase it would tend to discourage the use of the green and impose a financial hardship on some of those who liked to play.
Cllr J H Bright thought the new price was not too much, adding ‘They can afford it all right’. Cllr Wm C Friendship said he would second Cllr Short’s amendment to test the feeling of the meeting.
Cllr R L Cock said that while the putting green took hundreds of pounds there was big expenditure on wages. They were not allowed to make a profit. The putting was the cheapest amusement one could get in Bideford. Considering the time some of the men put in there it must work out at about an eighth of a farthing per game.
The Committee’s report was adopted, only two voting against.
Gazette article dated 18 March 1947