MUNICIPAL GOLF LINKS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2153, 20 May 1914, Page 6

MUNICIPAL GOLF LINKS

EXPERTS APPROVE Sim It was D'. Cameron, an c\-merr,hor oi tliO: Wolttagton .CitS" ..CoiLiiic.il, who on. his return from. England fos.t year, strongly urged that Wellington City should >go hi: foe ■m'yn.ie'ipa;! golf i Jiiilis, Tho .proposition did not. Sail on deaf ears, anil in. easting about for a suitable location for linte., a .portion of tha Town Ili-It, situated not far from tho Rev. Mother Mary Joseph AuberV's Homo of Compassion at Island Bay, was deemed to bo worth looking at by interested/ This block of belt, lies roughly between ilio old Pin pun Hospital and tho Homo of Compassion, and is above tho Duppa Street grounds. The spot was visited recently by n section of tho Reserves Committcfi, who had with them persons interested in golf. Theso intimated to the members of tlio f.ontnvit--ten that, tho site was almost ideal for irolf links, and that the cost of preparing tl.ie.Bt for play \vov.ld bo iiiconsiderabto. Mr. Simpson, tho professional g»lf player, who has locked over tho ground, approves of tho loc.ntion as or.e well supplied with natural bunkers, and heir.;; within easier reach of tito city tba'ji any other links. Tho outcome of the Eiior.irics will probably bo a rorejmneiwlation to tho ro unci I to form golf links at tho place indicated. •