PUKEKURA PARK.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1922, Page 7

PUKEKURA PARK.

PROGRESS WITH SPORTS GROUND. Good progress is being made with £he returfing of the recreation sports ground at New Plymouth. The sports ground committee has during the past few months spent some hundreds of pounds in re-making the playing area of the sports ground, which when completed within the next few weeks will be unrivalled as a playing area in the Dominion. Hundreds of yards of subsoil and virgin black soil have been purchased and spread on a perfectly graded foundation, re-drained and sown, until to-day, after only iour months’ work, the ground, instead of being locked up for a season, will be available within two or three weeks of the commencement of the football season in April. Work is now being concentrated on the area outside the football field, providing a perfect cricket outfield, and a level running and cycling track. It is hoped to have this work almost ready for sowing by the end of March, 'but more money is required. With the exception of one concert promoted by the committee on January 11 this year (the first of the open-air concerts conducted in the park) the committee has not worried the public for money, having for the whole work* arranged their own finance. Another hundred pounds will complete the whole of the work in hand for this year, and the committee confidently expects that by providing a first-class programme of music, their second concert on the lake will be not lees splendidly patronised than was the first. It is intended on this occasion to erect a stage on the Poet’s Bridge, and to ensure the accoustics by erecting a roof and sides to the - stage. The programme, an ambitious one, will be advertised within a few days, and' the committee hopes that all supporters will note to keep next -Saturday, ’lth inst., free for a couple of hours’ genuine enjoyment amidst the restful surroundings of the park.