NICHOLSON PARK

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 818, 12 November 1929, Page 9

NICHOLSON PARK

WORK TO BE COMPLETED Nicholson Park, Moui t Eil be completed, according to proposals put before the Mount Eden Boroug.i I Council by the engineer last evening. ! A design has been pr» pared for tip ! proposed layout of th* balance of i Nicholson Park extending from D;sI raeli Street to near Nicholson Avene-.*. } Briefly this scheme provides for ti.c j construction of an eighteen-foot will--1 roadway connecting the roads, and •suitably graded over its full length: the provision of lour additional tennis courts at the high level and a football I or cricket area at the Disraeli Street end of the p i lias been established four feet abov* : '1551 i Street T e vill i at the Disraeli Street ei:d of the foot- , ball area which it is proposed should ' be suitably formed and planted with native trees and flowering shrubs. Tl.* - steep area of land at the northern ••n-1 I of the football area will bo cleaned, suitably reformed and planted with pohutukawas and other native *■••••-. together with a central roseiy. There will be two footpaths each 10ft. wide through the above landscape area givccess p - ' to the playing ground. It is proposed to form a bold rockery alone the Disraeli Street frontage of ; park a >. 1 j at the entrance to *;.** football nr* a ' and roadway, while the ro*k lac* - around the playing area should h 1 planted with suitable climbing plane- . Tin m tier was referred to Committee.