BASIN RESERVE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2259, 19 September 1914, Page 4

BASIN RESERVE

CRfCKBT ASSOCIATION CONTROL. A revised draft of an agreement to be entered into between tho City Council and tho Wellington Cricket Association, in respect to tho Basin Reserve, was considered by the City Council on Thursday. In the revised agreement it is proposed that tho association shall pay, in lieu of ground fees, £175 per annum, and that any sum received by the association for ground fees, in excess of £175, shall be paid to the Corporation. On all days when a charge is made tho Corporation shall collect tho. gate-re-ceipts, and receive 10 per cent, after deducting the jjatemen's wa g Mi Th e term of tho agreement is sot as three years. RiVht is reserved to the council to grant the use of the .reserve for anv purpose, when it thinks fit. The Reserves Committee recommended that Mr. Albert Brewer, at present in the employ of tlie council at Wakefield Park, should be selected to fill tho nosition of groundsman at the Basin Reserve. Councillor R. Fletcher proposed that the term of the agreement should be during the pleasure of tho council. Hβ objected to control of the reserves being handed over to a'ny body, At the same time the remodelled igreemeht was a grrat advance on the previous one. Councillor J; K. Fitzgerald seconded the proposal. He failed to see why they should hand control over to the Cricket Association. Councillor T. O. A. Hislop favoured the specialising; of reserves for particular games. If the Basin Reserve was to be used to the best advantage it had to be used mainly for cricket: Councillor W. H. P. Barber said that the »Tiieiidmeiit would entail on sonio council the necessity of terminating an agreement. By fixing a definite term the matter would automatically come lm for further consideration. That was thn.most, desirable wny, in his oninion. Tho Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) congratulated the Reserves Committee on tho agreement they had brought up. If rrickot wns to be encouraged, ns he thousht it should, control should be placed with some responsible body. The agreenipnt, if enteral into, would tend to build up the national game. Councillor Fletcher's amendment was lost, the mover and seconder alone voting for it. ■ After further discussion the agreement, with the '".nchinew amendments, was ailopH&d. Tbs application of Mr. Brewer was newpfro , -