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Spotswood Domain. Reserves Nos. 3714 and 3157, Block IV, Cheviot Survey District. Area, 9 acres 1 rood 10 perches. Work done during year : Eight chains fences erected, and trees planted. Improvements now on domain : Fences and plantation. Used for football, cricket, sports, and general recreation. Proposed operations for ensuing year : Erecting iron gates with concrete posts, erecting fences, repairing others, and cleaning trees. Spreydon and Halswbll Domain. Reserve No. 110, Christchurch Survey District. Area, 20 acres. Work done during year : Fence erected, drains cleaned, and hedges cut. Improvements now on domain : Fifty chains fences, plantations, 50 chains drains, sports-track, and tennis-court in course of preparation. Used for sports, tennis, and grazing. Proposed operations for ensuing year : Fencingin and laying down asphalt tennis-court, and replacing dead trees. Springston Domain. Reserve No. 2362, Leeston Survey District. Area, 10 acres. Work done during year : General maintenance. Improvements now on domain : Fences, trees, shrubs, building, concrete cricket-pitch, and asphalt tennis-court. Used for cricket, tennis, and picnics. Proposed operations for ensuing year : Planting trees and shrubs, and repairing fences. St. Andrew's Domain. Reserve No. 634, Otaio and Patiti Survey District. Area, 24 acres and 12 perches. Work done during year : Fences trimmed, trees thinned and trimmed, promenade formed and sown with grass, trees trimmed to form an avenue around, domain, and fence erected on racecourse. Improvements now on domain : Eight chains gorse, post-and-wire fence, 5 chains open drain, 7 acres mixed plantation, pavilion, and 17 acres grassing. Used for picnics, cricket, and sports. Proposed operations for ensuing year : General maintenance. Tbmpleton Domain. Reserves Nos. 2351 and 2418, and part Rural Section 1807, Block IX, and part Rural Section 1680, Block XIII, Christchurch Survey District, and part Rural Section 2737, Block XVI, Rolleston Survey District. Area, 245 acres. This domain comprises the principal area of 229 acres and three smaller ones of 6 acres at Templeton, 5 acres at Yaldhurst, and 5 acres at Hornby, the latter being purchased by the Board during the year. This area has been cultivated preparatory to autumn sowing with grass, boundary-fences erected and repaired, and ornamental and shelter trees and shrubs planted. A new pavilion on the Templeton ground and a small entrance-gate on the Yaldhurst ground (on which a croquet-lawn has been laid down) have been erected, and several minor improvements and repairs effected. The principal area has been kept in good order, and all fences and gates maintained. Improvements now on domain : Fences, trees, pavilions, tennis-courts, croquet-lawns, gates, seating accommodation, and conveniences. Used principally for grazing, also military manoeuvres, picnics, and sports. Proposed operations for ensuing year : Procuring and erecting entrance-gates, cultivating and sowing down an area in grass, planting trees, and erecting fencing, conveniences, and seating accommodation. Tbmuka Domain. Reserves Nos. 307, Town of Arowhenua, and 1561, Opihi Survey District. Area, 183 acres. Work done during year : Unsightly and overgrown trees removed and cut into fencing-posts and firewood, which has met with a ready sale, a number of young trees planted, and general maintenance. Improvements now on domain : Post-and-wire fences with gorse hedges ; six wicket gates of iron for foot traffic ; five double gates for vehicles, two of wood and three of iron ; caretaker's house, bowlingpavilion, tennis-shed, dressing-room, grandstand, offices, three tennis-courts, cycling-track, bowlinggreen, and croquet-lawn. Used for sports and picnics. Ninety-six acres leased. The several clubs using the domain continue to add considerably to its attractiveness by expending large sums out of their own funds in improving and maintaining those portions allotted to them for their particular sports. Timaru Domain. Part of Reserve No. 102, Suburbs of Timaru. Area, 8 acres 1 rood 18 perches. Leased to South Canterbury Caledonian Society. Improvements now on domain : Grandstand, iron fence on three sides, plantation, oval sports-ground, bicycle-track, caretaker's cottage, and enclosures. Used for sports and football. Tinwald Domain. Parts of Reserves Nos. 2378 and 2275, Block XVI, Westerfield Survey District. Area, 230 acres. Work done during year : Superfluous trees and shrubs removed, 20 chains fencing erected, new tennis-court formed, and 18 acres sown down in grass. Improvements now on domain : Gorse, wire, and macrocarpa fences, pipe and open drains, grandstand and booth, three rooms for offices, pavilion, plantation, shrubs, tennis-courts, and lakelet with boat and boatshed. Used for cricket, tennis, boating, sports, and general recreation. Proposed operations for ensuing year : Erecting fences, planting 5 acres with trees and shrubs, constructing bath, laying down 20 acres in grass, repairing fences, and general maintenance.