Masterton Park Trust.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2980, 18 August 1888, Page 2

Masterton Park Trust.

A speoial meeting of the Masterton Park Trust was held this morning to consider an application for the privilege of charging at the. Park gates on theoccasiou'pfthe.'jrOjee'i'ed visit of the English footballers. The members present were ■ ■ Messrs .Payton (Chairman), leist, Bunny, Boddiiigtonr Moore, and Benall, The Chairman stated that the Park Trustees alone had the power to charge fees at the gate, but the Trustees of the cricket oval could veto their privelege for football purposes, He understood the cricket Trustees wished tho applicants to pay them five pounds, a sum required to protect a portion of the oval- from damage, Ho suggested that the Park Trustees should not surrender their own fee, but should' compensate tho cricket trustees for the anticipated damage.

Mr F. G. Moore moved that the Park Trustees accede to tho application and remit tho fee usually charged for the use of the gates.. Mr A. E. Bunny seconded the motion pro forma, but maintained that the Trustees of the Oval had forfeited their right to veto football on the Oval by not complying with the engagements they had entered into to improve tho Oval,

Mr Boddirigton moved as an amendment that the Park Trustees charge tbeir ordinary fee aiid indemnify the Cricket Trustees against damage to the extent of live pounds.

Mr F. G. Moore asserted that the Cricket Trustees had fulfilled their engagements and that Mr Bunny's contention was unsupported by any official statement and was also contrary to actual facts. There had been a considerable expenditure on a gravel bed in the centre ..of. ; the Oval, .which had been'dug! out/and filled in with,earth. This ground was still ; soft, and they required to protect it with sods if the footballers played thereon. : '

'The amendment was then put and 'carried,'and after some .further details were arranged the meeting adjouriied,