STANLEY BAY PARK

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 670, 23 May 1929, Page 11

STANLEY BAY PARK

IMPROVEMENT REQUESTS

A deputation comprising the Stanley Bay School Committee, for which Mr p. J. Sheehan acted as spokesman* waited on tho Devonport Borough Council last evening: to urge that an tfort be now made to fill in and make available for a school play-ground an area of one acre on Stanley* Bay Park which had been set aside for the purpose. Three years ago the Education Department had voted a grant of £3OO to help to bring this ground into use It was now proposed to lift this grant! and the borough was asked to subsiilise it £ for £ and to invite the Government to subsidise as an unemployment relief job. The council decided to consider the request when dealing with the estimates for annual expenditure. BEACH BEING LOST A deputation from the Stanley Bay improvement Association waited on the council, and after congratulating the councillors on their election and expressing appreciation with the efforts made to improve Stanley Bay area, a speaker asked for more footpaths *at Stanley Point, and complained that storm water drainage, discharging on the beach, was helping denude the beach of sand. An offer of £4O was made toward making a cricket pitch on Stanley Park, and a request was made for the appointment of a groundsman. The Mayor, Mr. E. Aldridge, said that Stanley Bay would get fail' treatment. If the beach was being denuded of sand, the storm-water drainage was not the cause. The borough could .not now afford to pay a groundsman, but some arrangement would be made to superintend the park development.