THE RECREATION GROUND.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2903, 5 June 1878, Page 2

THE RECREATION GROUND.

(To the Editor of fche. Evening Star.) r Sib, —Would you khdly inform me of the meaning o; the wo:d " recreation." My dictionary uaya it means,that which tends to reiresh aile; labor } a:THTSoaieat; iel'ef from loil. Please say wheHi*-,' it is VVcJbslcr or our City Corncilk.s t! it are coirec''. Ono or t'other must be wrong ; or eL"3 it is tlie repor.ers cJ 1 ihe Tiiaiies press, for rs>"urecfly bufru our morning a id evening papers hare reported that ih-se very worthy Councillor)! of ours pu?po: 9 offering a* Mr Spencer fifty pounds (£SO) per acre for his gardens, located p,t P".rawai for recreation grounds. I cannot bring myielf to believe that of? rulers, out ' Thames rr."er3, hare «he ' harJihco' t o affirm that it would tend to reives!-, amuse, or is in pn • way " a relief from : xl" to any one at vi vk e;ght bonn per day to have, a nl€i' that to 1 ,ofc ifc to Par twai in or Jer to reach *b3 recreation

grounds. We want rcc: 1 ilion grounds nea.er home, wheve we c:.n, of a summer evening, pass a pleasuU hour with onr dmUie^ c *, sw otheavs, as t.-e case may bo. " Bismarck," in 10-day's 'Tlser, <■ speaks of employing Steaitiboa'* and railway trains. Ho surely musi have been, in a sarcastic mood at fie time of

writing, and, consequently, it gervwr him right to be stowed away in a co'ner, almost out of sights and in the sirr.llest of t/pe. The truth is, ." JBismarck," it doesn't pay the Advertiser to exposa every little job. So far as I have seen they have not uttered a word in opposition to this waste of the publio funds. No I Tho Editor of that paper can't afford to attend lo sjc'i trifles. His time-is more profi ably employed at the Islands of New Erifcatn aid Ireland

fishing for scandal. , To the Editor of our evening luminavy we are indebted, and to* him ov-v thanks are due. But, to return to the " grounds." Only ft icy the price

offered. Fifty pourcls (£SO) per acre. Tl at a body of business men, said to be patriotic, honest rad honorrable should almost unanimously lass such a resolution as that r. corded by your lenorter, svvprises very many. J H honow. 1 t> tbe two honorable exec-tiocs for against this threatened wilful waste of the iunds of the public. If ouv councillors are likely to receive mere money than they know what to do w Ith, then I would suggest it be spent on a b:idge and the road to the cemetery It's a crying shame that this money shorld be shovelled into the pocket of Spencer, wh^e the road to tbe cemeiery is a disgrace to a field of tinkers. —I am, &0.,