PLAYING FIELDS FOR ENGLAND.
“ The response to the offer made by the National Playing Fields Association and the trustees has abundantly justified the belief that the. provision of playing fields on a national scale was in a, real sense a ‘new need.’ Several hundred applications have been received siii'ce the policy was announced, and grants to the number of one hundred and twenty-three were made by the trustees during 1928. In nearly every case trust, grants have been supplemented by N.P.F.A. grants-, and the total sum of the grants from the two bodies is approximately £50,000, of which the trustees have given roughly £33,000. As the joint nature of the two bodies represent about one-tenth of the cost in each case, this means that, apart from numerous gifts of land from private donors, the value of which has not been ascertained, the country is the richer in playing fields by at least £soo,ooo’s worth of land and equipment. The total new acreage is estimated at well over 3000, and it is explicitly stated in many instances that the grants have supplied just the necessary stimulus.”—From the Trustees’ Iteport.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1929, Page 5
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188PLAYING FIELDS FOR ENGLAND. Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1929, Page 5
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