WAR MEMORIAL.
PARK IN CHBISTCHTRCH. (Bj Telegraph.—Press Association.) • . CSHKISTQHX'RCIH, Tuesday. At t meeting of the Canterbury ljawn ftisit Association to-night, the financial (rnngtmrats in connection with the mtat purchase of ten acres of land for iMociation courts •were approved. Mr. W. X. Seay, the president of the asso(atton, stated that there would l>? iofrm for fifty courts. Jlr. J. H. Kirk, whose generous gift ef; £900 Has made the project possible. wieitted a proposal to make the new fm a memorial to tennis players of CttUrintrj" who had fallen in the war. It Sight, he suggested, be called Wildinpr Heinoriil Park "or the Tennis Memorial '" le suggestion was <renerally appreved, hat it wae derided to refer the wtter to a committee for a report. It wae decided to inform the Xew ZM'lind Association that it was imposfcbh to hold the invitation match qvaat tie New South Wales ladies' t*Bl oriJftnuary 5 and 6, as those dates OMOed with the MjC.C. test cricket ■mn.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 301, 20 December 1922, Page 13
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WAR MEMORIAL.
Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 301, 20 December 1922, Page 13
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