Ample space is provided in the plans for Morningside’s new park for children’s playing areas. Here is the accepted plan by Messrs. E. V. Blake and R. F. Gilmour. The Hon. George Fowlds w ill open the first section of the park on Saturday. The finished scheme will embrace the preparation of a natural amphitheatre for football and cricket lawns for croquet and bowls, tennis courts, a hockey ground, and pavilions. With five main entrances from the surrounding residential district, the park should be a great asset to the people of Mount Albert. The section which is t o be opened on Saturday, and which will receive first attention in the development, is in the right hand bottom corner of the plan.

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 360, 22 May 1928, Page 14

Ample space is provided in the plans for Morningside’s new park for children’s playing areas. Here is the accepted plan by Messrs. E. V. Blake and R. F. Gilmour. The Hon. George Fowlds w ill open the first section of the park on Saturday. The finished scheme will embrace the preparation of a natural amphitheatre for football and cricket lawns for croquet and bowls, tennis courts, a hockey ground, and pavilions. With five main entrances from the surrounding residential district, the park should be a great asset to the people of Mount Albert. The section which is t o be opened on Saturday, and which will receive first attention in the development, is in the right hand bottom corner of the plan.