SPORTS GROUND FOR NORTH BRIGHTON.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19719, 9 September 1929, Page 5

SPORTS GROUND FOR NORTH BRIGHTON.

OSBORNE TERRACE RESERVE FAVOURED.

The chairman of the New Brighton Borough Council Reserves' Committee (Cr. E. A. Lawry) met representatives of the North Beach and Waimairi Burjesses' Association on Saturday with the view of obtaining some suitable site for the purpose of a sports ground for North Brighton. Apparently the Osborne Terrace Reserve was favoured. This reserve originally contained an area of S3 acres. This has been reduced by the Borough Council granting the Education Board an area of four acres for a school site, while a further four acres at the rear of the North Brighton School has been leased to the North Brighton School Committee as an extension of their playground This leaves 24 acres right in the centre ot New Brighton, which should prove an ideal sports ground and playing area for residents and visitors. On viewing th«> proposed site, various suggestions were put forward that should improve and tend to popularise the grounds. That which met with most favour by the party was to plant immediately a shelter belt of Lorn bard y poplars along the east, west, ana southern boundaries, but owing to it being so late in the season it waa decided not to do any extensive planting of this account this year other than the shelter belt already referred to.