LANCASTER PARK

Press, Volume C, Issue 29503, 3 May 1961, Page 4

LANCASTER PARK

Wider Use Sought The Lancaster Park Action Committee intends to adopt more vigorous methods in its attempt io get the Victory Park Board to allow the playing of important international fixtures, other than Rugby and cricket, on Lancaster Park. . The committee recently wrote to the Canterbury Cricket Association and the Canterbury Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association with the request that discussions be held on the use of Lancaster Park, but neither body was prepared to meet the committee. The Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen’s Association received a deputation from the committee, but although the association expressed some sympathy for the committee’s cause it decided it could see no advantage in' taking the matter further. The committee's secretary (Mr R. E. F. Hayes) said yesterday that his organisation had tried to arrange discussions with the sporting bodies in a democratic fashion, but their efforts had been rejected. “From now on we intend to adopt more vigorous' methods in our attempt to establish the rights of other sports to have important international fixtures, both amateur and professional, played at Lancaster Park,” he said. “The whole question will be brought into the open in an advertising campaign in the near future.”