RECREATION GROUND.

Otaki Mail, 17 August 1923, Page 2

RECREATION GROUND.

j To the Editor. Sir, —In your issue oi' l-'riday last a report nppearc,| i,. a deputation to tut' s Council, asking it in purchase two see'i lions for croquet greens. .Vow. Sir. as o.Mr who assisted to raise funds for the recreation ground improvement '' >chome, 1 must object to the method ■■' adopted by the Croquet club. This is ' the second deputation to the Council 1 since the committee appointed by the ' sports' bodies of Olaki submitted ; their proposals to the Council. Pro- ' vision is made for two croquet greens. 1 one Coot ball ground, one hockey ground, ' Hub which will not interfere with the ■ .-roquet green., also cut rune.,- gates an,. r a small grandstand. Tl roquet representative wits at thai meeting and . ibe chairman intimated that the funds raised must be spent on recreation • ground not the purchase . o; additional land. The railway re presentative ivit. in.trade.l by his >-<jm i mittec to oppo.,e any att-mpl to use . the fund, outside the ground*, and i other three representative.-, to use the • mud- other than the advertised appeal I to improve the .omuiii. Now, Sir. I . am ready to a.ln.it the croquet ladie.were tie- first to«\iggcsi :,,, improvement . appeal for lun-i- u, buv additional

I mosl also object to one of the deputation who appeared on both occasions. ' and who took no part in the carnival. ' but who is now trying to advise the Council how to u-c the money. The j Mayoi was speaking from oxperienci when lie said it is better to have one small domain in good order than pur-J I would like to remind your readers of I I the coronation ceremony by the queen, j that the fund- cere to be spent on the • domain. As the engine.-;- has not been I able to bring'down hi,- report, with I the approximate cost of levelling, draining, etc., nobody i : - in a position to j -ay how far the fund* wil] go. Vours. I CITIZEN.