WHERE BROOKLYN PLAYS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1215, 25 August 1911, Page 4

WHERE BROOKLYN PLAYS.

A GROUND WANTED. Last night there waited on tho City Council a big deputation from tho southwestern portion ol Wellington, .who wished to represent the necessity for a playground in that neighbourhood. Mr. I' , . M. B. l-'ishcr. J1.J. , ., said Hint tho deputation represented every sporting body in Wellington, resident? in the nrca concerned, and represeiiVativcs of the schools in the locality. Other portions of the city had their playgrounds, but not so Brooklyn. He understood the land was available and obtainable at a reasonable figure. He urged that . the council should ask the city engineer to report on this cost of constructing a recreation ground between the Brooklyn tramline nnd Ohiro Road. Mr. It, A. Wright, M.1 , ., said that the only ground for the portion of the city affected was not the one in Nelson Street which was not always ill to play on owing to the winds. The Brooklyn portion of the city was capable of great extension and development and it was better to expend money on breathing spaces than nn hospitals. ; ' Mr. Hopkirk paid that the children of Brooklyn were in need of a Rood playing , ground. The boys could not play football very comfortably on the Nixon Street ground as most of tho time was spoilt in bringing (hf- ball up tlio hill after it had rolled down. There was place for mothers to go with young children, and vet' there was a natural amphitheatre waiting there. He hoped the council would, in tho intercuts of (lie citizens concerned, do what they could in the direction asked. The, Mayor (Mr. T. M. Wilford) wirt that lie thought , tho council was with him in saying that , this was a very suitable ground. He declined to look upon it m a Brooklyn matter; it was a city natter, and the city was indebted to V.rnoWyn for offering'such a suitable site. Two years a<ro tho cost of iww.i t i«]i [-riun'fH was .£1(1.000 a y.ir. and tin , ; year was .CSnfin. The expenditure was m> heavy and the rotnrn so small th.it they nt (niif? woiulfred if the rruncil wore instifiMl. However, it. was r«t nltotrotlior a mnlrer of monry; the he.ilfh of citizens had to be cared for. Largo sums had ]atc-ly boon spent in recreation grounds, nnd 'there was no chance of this project bpinji undertaken this year; next , year wns the earliest. The council could not make any promise- till a'report as to cost was received.