QUEST FOR SPORTS GROUNDS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1110, 25 April 1911, Page 6

QUEST FOR SPORTS GROUNDS.

ONE SPOT SUGGESTED. Playing grounds and over more playing grounds is a a cry of afflicted sports, men often heard in Wellington. Tlio demand far outruns the supply, but Mr. J. P. Luke (retiring chairman of the Corporation Reserves Committee) is of opinion that the city owns at least otio extensive reserve suitable for playing fields that is now lying undeveloped and unused,

, This is a portion of the Town Belt, fiitualo between Russell Terrace and the western extremity of Newtown Park. J'lioro is hero an area of between forty and fifty ucrcs'of purely level land which could bo converted into trim playing helds at comparatively slight cost. Tlio site has still another good quality — tho sun shines on it all day long. At present mi approach to it means a climb over a Inuk on the western side of tho lark entrance. This temporary disauility, however, could bo remedied. As -\lr. Luke paints out, the construction of a doubla line of trarmvav from tho present Nowtown terminus'to tho i ark gates is bound to bo put in hand we long. Jo carry n single lino from the Park gates through a short cutting in tho bank mentioned above, and thence along the line of Russell Terrace for about half a mile would be an inexpensive undertaking, and it would givo quick access. Mr Luke considers that cricketers might find in tins neglected reserve the ample playing spaces which'some of them have believed it be unattainable.