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that would be a more expensive thing than the Council could afford ; to do so would require an expenditure of I-300 a year at lea-d. He thought a portion of the ground could be laid out without disturbing the cricketers ; but he did not think it fair to allow the club to acquire a vested right, and he for one could not be in favor of it. To do away with the cricket grounds would hardly be wise. He thought strips of ground, say twenty feet wide, might be planted with trees and shrubs. Mr Cargill thought the matter was one of importance, and “one which would be forced on the attention of the Council whether they willed or no, before long. He was greatly struck with the report of the deputation that waited on the Mayor, and it appeared to him that the gentlemen forming the deputation had sounded a note of warning on the whole question to which the Council would do well to’give heed He did not think the advocacy of the cause of the cricketers had been advanced much by the deputation. One of the deputation, whom he believed to be a legal gentleman, appeared to have considered that the Club had already acquired a vested right; and said that it oimht to have that right extended. Another gentleman was said to have expressed a strong opinion that it W's absolutely necessary to carrying on cricket, that spirituous liquors could be obtained by players iu their —well he would say shanties. It was very well for those gentlemen to give out that the Council w.-.s endeavoring to discourage cricket and other manly exercises; but he protested against such an argument, and was surprised that the gentlemen should have made use of such an improper argument. It was the Council’s duty to protect the interests of the citizens at large in pre ference to beuefitling a comparatively small section of them. With regard to the deput ation’s observations that a recreation ground at the south end of the City was not so much required, he felt sure the residents in the much despised South Ward would feel much obliged to those gentlemen for their suggestion ; but he as one of the residents, thought it a beautiful piece of ground— Srhaps that it was one of the best in the ty and that it was none too small. At the same time he agreed with Mr Barnes that it would not be judicious to plant the whole of it as a garden. He did not attach so much importance to makin* it a garden as to making it a proper recreation ground, which was much required. He advocated the cricket clubs endeavouring to utilise a portion of the Town Belt, where the game would not be so likely to become so inconvenient or dangerous to the inhabitants as it was now. He strongly protested against the clubs being granted the shadow of a vested right, and urged that they should be given to. understand that they used the ground on sufferance, and would have to remove if they were found to interfere with the public convenience or comfort. He thought the public were of one miud as to the grog selling on the ground, which was an intolerable nuisance, and should not be allowed for a moment. The Mayor mentioned that Mr Anderson had informed him that he had been misreported in the Daily Times. He did not in. tend to convey a desire on the part of the Club that the sale of spirituous liquors should be allowed, hut that the members should be allowed to take refreshments for themselves. The subject then dropped.

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