WEEDONS TO HAVE GOLF COURSE

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31167, 17 September 1966, Page 11

WEEDONS TO HAVE GOLF COURSE

QOLF facilities close to the heart of Christchurch are to be swelled by the construction of a course at Weedons. A club has been formed and work is proceeding on the conversion of 63 acres of the Weedons domain to a nine-hole course. The club was bom at a meeting of Weedons residents who wished to supplement the recreational facilities of the district. Since then a constitution has been adopted and officers elected; the president is a Paparua County Councillor, Mr L. P. Manion, under whose sponsorship the idea of the development of the domain originated. Membership reference is to be given to people living within the boundaries of the Paparua. Malvern and Ellesmere counties. Weedons is 13 miles from Cathedral Square, and the new course will be one mile from the main south road. The domain is the home of the Weedons Cricket Club, one of the oldest in the country*.

The course will be well sheltered and a club house is to be built It will be some time before the first rounds are played at Weedons and, in the meantime, the activities of the members are concerned chiefly with money and manpower. Constructing a course from undeveloped land and raising the necessary finance are big undertakings. but an excellent spirit among the members is obvious and the determination to build a worthwhile organisation is evident