HOCKEY GROUND.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 78, 2 April 1928, Page 6

HOCKEY GROUND.

If it wore not such a serious mat*,, would be highly amused at the remarks att?" buted to Archdeacon MacMurrav chai of the■ Dilworth Trust Bo.ri. tahh regarding the disposal of the recreation r«!H at Market RoJ, ,vhich h„ K hockev ground for a number of years Arrt, deacon Mac-Murray "hopes this* use ground will secure to the "iris of Wu , a p'aygrouncl ideally sit.,at?,i. which SS for the betterment of the 3 i, , s ' ol therefore be tor the good of thf sitv" TwJ this is a different view from that which ill same gentleman held.a few years ago, when bnt tor an injunction of the Supreme Court tl»» 'I rust Board would have cut 'this fine Syfc' area into building sections. \Yh en one back and remembers the state of the ground when hockey was first played there and to the thousands of pounds which the Hockev Association must have spent to brin<» it to what it is to day, one cannot be forgiven for thinking that the Dilworth Trust Board has not treated the Hockey Association at all fairly. It appears from Archdeacon MaeMurray s statement that the Hockey Association was not considered in the least. Surely it was only a fair thing to assume that, at the board decided not to lease the ground on the terms advertised, the Hockey Association might have been communicated with and given an opportunity. Apparently the Hockey Association were the last to be considered and not the first, as a fair-minded individual would have thought. FAIR PLAY.