MORE PLAYING AREAS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 465, 21 September 1928, Page 13

MORE PLAYING AREAS

SITES IN MT. ROSKILL GENEROUS GIFT ACCEPTED The Mount Roskiil Road Board is endeavouring to secure control of several valuable reserves in the district, which are at present vested in the Crown. At the board’s meeting last evening the parks and reserves committee reported the result of a recent conference with an officer of the Lands and Survey Department.# He had been shown over reserved pieces of land in Fairholme Avenue, Fernleigh Avenue, Three Kings Road, Foch Avenue and Richmond Road, all of which are capable of being transformed into bowling greens, croquet and tennis courts for the benefit of residents in those areas, but are at present lying idle, neglected and full of noxious weeds. It is expected that in view of a favourable report being submitted to tho Minister, these areas will be ha need over* to the road board. Provision is also being made for utilising another recreation endowment between Ridge and Arkell’s Roads, by adopting a recommondai i m of the Director of Town-planning, who suggested that in any future subdivision in this area, provision should be made for a 40 or COft. roadway between the properties of two landowners. This road will then give access to a recreation reserve, as well as a frontage to smaller subdivisions. Tinworks committee was instructed to give this question further consideration. With the object of forming the existing quarry site at Three Kings into ... public domain, the Lands and Survey Department submitted plans with instructions for quarrying the site to a fixed level. The area is then to b«* topdressed with soil and transferred to the Mount Roskiil Domain Board as a recreation endowment.

A further area of four acres in the Winstone Park Estate is to be severed from a 12-acre block in the Burke Estate and reserved for a school site and recreation ground. The ooard also accepted an offer by Mr. George Winstone of a further area of high land oyerlooking this reserve, suitable for a grandstand or vantage ground. Mr. Winstone was accorded a vote of thanks for his generous gift.