UTILISING WASTE LAND

Otago Witness, Issue 4029, 2 June 1931, Page 5

UTILISING WASTE LAND

NEW PUBLIC GOLF COURSE OUTLINE OF PROPOSAL. The proposal to form a nine-hole public golf course near Chisholm Park is likely to be proceeded with at an early date, and it is possible that much of the work, which is of a light nature, will be offered to returned soldiers who are in need of such assistance. The proposed site of the course is the sandhill and lupine country in the vicinity of Chisholm Park and the Ocean Beach Domain, and there is plenty of room for its eventual growth into a full-sized 18-hole course. The work is in the hands of Mr D. Tannock, superintendent of reserves, and it is understood that his plan has already been approved by the Reserves Committee of the Dunedin City Council. Mr Tannock proposes to build up the greens on a similar system to that employed in making the croquet and bowling greens at Chisholm Park—on a foundation of rotten rock, clay, and soil—and the fairways will also be prepared in this manner. The first hole will skirt the football ground and the second will continue into the hills towards the north. The third will cut back across country near the road line, along which the fourth will run, the fifth turning back towards the second. The course will then assume a zig-zag shape reaching the ninth hole near Lawyer’s Head at the Anderson’s Bay end. The longest hole will be nearly 600 yeards from tee to green, and several others will measure around 500 yards. Though a definite decision has not yet been made regarding the control of the course, whether it will be municipally controlled or let to a club, it is certain that it will be a public course and that anybody will be allowed to play on it and a small charge per round will be fixed.