DAMAGED GREENS

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 210, 6 September 1938, Page 9

DAMAGED GREENS

RESTORATION WORK.

AWMMD BOWLING CLUB.

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So ropidly has the wort «f _x . a a: ra^-TO »rf it is antedate?tw"# i 8 fin " w*l play as trul/afev er green When the floods nf t..i quantities of "S swe P* ln,g« on the new Doniata „£d greens, officials of +11 V 7 on to the opinion that it It WCre ° f the repair the danm™ £ +• * ?l 10MiM « to season. There L 1 , t,me . fo !; P la y th » on one preen ,S'? ur lnch / s of silt Play, and £ AH in and levefan ent . material to ' was tho ™„ '- Principal concern was the manner in which the lon* in, mersion would affect the mas, S Th» torr 11181 Winter ra, ' nS > *S. JSh total immersion for a ncrinH ,«, +1 -suit of the floods, UTatedUed the ground to an extent that might ha*e • result there was a possibility that the stand up to a hot summer. However "*" ffi '

It is interesting to note that the determined efforts of the club to establish what is known as the water-weed on the greens are now bea.is-g fruit. the main green 20,000 plants of the Queens town weed were laboriously planted bv hand and tnese have become established, so that in several years' time there should be a perfect sward, impervious to extreme weather conditions. On the upper green there is a quantity of the Mercury Bay weed, while the original Westport weed is to be seen in patches ZLi 6 ,OWer Wmter een ' wtich is used in summer for croquet.