LYALL BAY RESERVE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 944, 11 October 1910, Page 4

LYALL BAY RESERVE.

» A; PUBLIC ■; PLAJGEOUND.■ >:-,yOy : VThe ; questioned yesterday 7 by;,a -Dominion r£ :.'.•■'' : ; porter, as to the./purpose to which: the.:v'; '-fii'i land that the City: Council has decided' to- -'-"J - purchase ; at.-: Lyall ■• Bay, Trill be "applied'/? ■' in. the immediate .future.-.There is ■ foundation, Mr; Wilford:declared, for an, .• '■..'-)' idea tthat has got .about—it.-.has f been Iv/.' mentioned: in some• of -the newspapers—.-.''j'-'--that football and crioket grounds may bayy\ made on; the area''acquired.'" The land -',-:,:*. is a public reserve and, picnicking ground, -v :y It is going to be; preserved, in its; pre-W-;-sent form for a considerable time..; Aa .-',■'■■•-.'."" to. the council's intentions they are -going,yU ; :. to improve; the twelve:'acres'..the;Govern-';-y- : ment■ has given them.'.-. It" has' been, sug-:H ;; gested that,: when' the defence;scheme 19"-, '■'■.:"'■■:■ in operation, the' Government may-hold.' -..'■; Territorial displays, on-this area;in ; the ..,; ;. evening by electric light.; Later-the. couii- ';:.?.<• - .cil'r may .form ,ah amateur sports.:track ;;:•;; on the- reserve, with perhaps,;:other ■fa J ,:';: : cilities for spectators,: so that aU.'sorta' : ' : .,:-. of;evening sports may be held by electric '';;'■■ , light: The possibilities of a";water front- .'- age, ~'such as that of Lyall Bay, '.are: enoir-: . : '. mous, and the. attractions :of the .place,natural and "artificial, should '■'..serve '.to y induce a;rapidly-increasing tramway.rev-.'.v. entie'that-would provide tne council with". yY; an ample = warranty - for: any expenditure .'• ■..:,.-' it may, incur ..in improving "the 1 .reserve. The tremendous increase in carriage, confident} v anticipated/ would' warrant the ".'.. council in considering'■• the improvement. of." the Kilbirnie: tunnel or the' extension ,y'.,. of-', the;■Newtown line, -from , Constable v-.<■■ Street. Many things, the Mayor-remark-:'.y - e'd,' hinge in this.case on one thing! Xon-; cernsrun by a municipality, Mr. WUford ■'■ ; y continued, should.-pay; -The work of,im-. ■'; proving and-popularising the: Lyall Bay •■/■- reserve-seemed.likely .to;;.pay handsomely -v-':V- ---: and,; should ; . therefore \ be.. pushed.'; ahead ?; (•£ 3 : 'The council, "of course,', must:: .:: .see to,-it that it.had a fair.commercial,i : y; \ transaction tin. hand before;, committing; s'V-r: itself Afcb .'any ; large ;espenditure;y ;:Vy '■^:y-,-y/[.-.: