Taihape Blog

Hello all,

I thought I would come here to dispel come myths about the Otaihape Clubs involvement in the Leisure Hub Project at Memorial Park.

Yes the Otaihape Club has pledged $500,000 towards this project (subject to there being sufficient funding available for the project to start).
So what does the Otaihape Club want for their $500,000 you ask?
Well not alot really, all they really want is a place to drink, room for their 3 snooker tables and to still be part of the Clubs NZ Society. The Otaihape Club had a membership of 221 last year, it was a small membership compared to the previous years but many of them would still like to have a place to go to for a drink with friends and a place to hold functions etc.

The new Leisure Centre will not be an Otaihape Club No. 2. The new Leisure centre will include the membership of the Otaihape but apart from that there will be no more similarities.

The Otaihape Club has no hidden agenda here, they are in it for the community! They will have no extra say over what happens in this project. Whether a club has pledged $4000 or $500,000 it makes no difference at all! No rules will be enforced by one club alone, this new facility is for the whole community – not just a small proportion of people in town.

Get it out of your heads that this is an Otaihape Club takeover, its not and never has been.