Correspondence.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43216, 17 August 1907, Page 2

Correspondence.

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[to the editor]. Sir, —As some one for their own pur pose is stirring up bowling green matters will you kindly allow me a little space in your paper oh the subject. In the first place, the present green was not laid down properly, and will never be a green such as bowlers want and expect in a Government Tourist Resort. I was resident in Te Aroha when the bowlinggreen was made, and, like many others, commentad on the class of bottom put in for drainage purposes. A child could have seen what would happen. The material set instead of remaining porous, hence the present state of the green, and any one talking or writing of grass seed, top dressing and manuring in connection with making our green a good one, is writing or talking nonsense. The error, whiich can never be remedied, was in the original construction of the green. I believe years ago, Mr Harrison, a wellknown bowler here, and an expert on bowling-green matters, remarked that the only way to improve the Te Aroha bowling green was to tear it up and lay it down afresh—and so say I. I should like to hear that Mr Dalton had been instructed to do so after laying off a temporary green for the coming season. If Mr Dalton, a professional gardiner (and a good one, as one can judge from the work he has done here), cannot fix up our bowling-green, how could an amateur, with little or no knowledge except of a most prefunctory kind, improve matters ? —I am, etc., CoMMONSENSE.