IMPROVING HOCKEY GROUNDS ON HUTT PARK.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 33, 8 February 1913, Page 15

IMPROVING HOCKEY GROUNDS ON HUTT PARK.

The Hutt Park Committee met, last evening to consider tenders for the 'supply of "300 loads of top-dressing, for tho purpose of improving the hocltoy grounds on the Park. Ths Hatt, Biver Board forwarded a letter in this connection olfering the committee 1600 cubic y3i*ds of river deposit soil subject to a royalty to the board of 4d per cubic yard. It was resolved to accept this offer, so that with Mr. Simpson's tender for carting, which was accepted at Is !5d per load, the total cost per load would be Is 9d. It was moved that $50 loads at Is 9d per load ba placed on the park. Mr. Baldwin.'tiowever| was of opinion that the cotnnhttee should increase the amount of soit to 600 -cubic yards {'it had "akinfiinted.the park long enough and it was time to go ahead in the proper manner." It Was ultimately decided to increase the amount to 600 cubic yards, as the chairman suggested. Jt was resolved to ask the River Board for a refund on the cost of the soil. The Hockey _ Association forwarded another letter giving irttini.vioi^ of a motion passed at one of its meetings .to [ the effect that if the ten hockey grounds could not be ready to its satisfaction on Ist April it would take six of the piepared grounds at a reduced rental, the remaining four grounds' io be finished off by Ist Apiil, 1914. (t was resolved to inform the association that the committee was not in a position to guarantee the grounds^ being "done to the association's satisfaction in a given time, but it would do its best to have as many of the grounds as possible ready in the shbrtest time, tt was agreed to grant a I reduction to the association in case of the i full number of the grounds being^neomI pleted, It was also resolved to ask representatives of the association to visit the nark at intervals to see if the work was being satisfactorily carried out.