NO KEGS OF BEER AT PARK
BOROUGH COUNCIL’S CONDITION
“The Press” Special Service AUCKLAND, October 21. No kegs or cartons of beer will be allowed at Sturges Park this summer. This is the condition on which the Otahuhu Borough Council intends to hire the ground to a Sunday cricket team.
Thi? Mayor (Mr J. M. Deas), at a meeting last night, said that the council did not intend to try to make ‘•wowsers’’ out of the cricketers. There was no objection to their consuming a bottle or two of beer with their lunch, provided they brought it to the ground individually, drank it in the dressing rooms and removed the bottles afterwards.
Mr Deas said that what it was wished to avoid was the bringing of large quantities of liquor to the ground. This was not done at Otahuhu, but he had heard that elsewhere most of the on Sunday cricketers’ “gear
The council is to ask the club to appoint someone to see that the cond> tions arfe observed.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26868, 22 October 1952, Page 5
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