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The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2)

CHAPTER XVII
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These dues are absurdly low in view of the privileges which it affords.
Although Mr.Forbes does not like to have it known, I cannot refrain from stating that the club has not always been self-supporting, and that he has repeatedly made up deficits from his private funds.

The cost involved in getting the golf course into shape was out of all proportion to the resources of the organization.

Sufficient funds were not available to pay for the club house and cottages when they were constructed, and had it not been for the generosity of Mr.Forbes the club would not exist to-day in anything like its present form.
The polo field at Baguio has been referred to as another evidence of extravagant governmental expenditure.

It is true enough that it was in the first instance an expensive luxury, as an immense amount of earthwork had to be done in order to make a level piece of ground of sufficient size.

The field is administered by the Country Club, and is open to the use of the public for any form of amusement which will not interfere with its use for polo.


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