ENGLISH PARK.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17986, 1 February 1924, Page 6

ENGLISH PARK.

TO BECOME A POPULAR SPORTS GROUND. English Park, which of late years has been comparatively deserted for sports meetings, has been leased by a syndicate of which Mr George Sutherland, well-known as an old-time cycling champion in New Zealand and Australia is the organiser. Tlw* Park, as promised by the syndicate, will become a popular resort for athletic and sports meetings of every kind. In the past the Park has been lamentably lacking in proper accommodation for competitors but the syndicate proposes to begin work almost immediately by installing dressing rooms equipped with shower baths and lavatories. A good embankment for the convenience of spectators will also be erected. The cycling track is to be asphalted and arc lights are to be installed round the ground, so that the ground may be lighted up at night. The syndicate, which has secured a long lease aims to make the Park as popular as possible during the summer months. Sports bodies which desire to use the Park for meetings may rent the ground. The cost of renting for schools will be purely a nominal figure.

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