CITY PLAYING AREAS

Evening Star, Issue 22144, 26 September 1935, Page 13

CITY PLAYING AREAS

GETTIKS READY FOR CRtCHET WMA WELL ADVANCED The increase that has taken place in the number of Dunedin’s playing area* during the last 20 years or so has been remarkable. . . Citizens who remember the immediate pre-war years and the grounds that were then available for cricket and football will not be able to recollect the existence of many areas outside Carisbrook and the Caledonian Ground.Tahuna Park and the North Ground were, of course, used, but the latter and any other places that have been commissioned for the city’s athletes were not in a very satisfactory state. , But times have changed. iVot only have new sporting arenas been established, but also considerable improvements have been effected on those of oider origin. Particularly at this time of the year, when the grounds are being nursed from the more rough-and-ready football state into something which fits in with a cricketer’s ideas as to what a ground should be, the reserves department has a very busy time. This spring the “ change over i» well advanced. As soon as football ceased to bo played on the vanou* grounds a start was made on the work of top-dressing the cricket pitches. Then wickets -Jiave already been prepared at Logan Park, and a start on similar work will've made at the Oval on Monday mowing. As a result of the_ attention vt'hlcli it has recently received the Oval hj|s never been in better condition. ■ The wickets have also been topdressed at Tonga Park, and a start is soon to be made at Mornington, a ground which, among many others, has been considerably improved by relief labour. The Littlebourne Ground, one© a rather barren expanse, is now covered with a healthy grass, and here, roo, the cricket pitches have bcxyi topdressed. *