MEADOWBANK OPENED
Facilities Praised
(N.Z.P.A-Reuter—Copyright) EDINBURGH. The Meadowbank sports centre, the home of this year’s Commonwealth Games, was officially opened in Edinburgh on Saturday. It cost £2,300,000. The Duke of Kent, performing the opening ceremony, said that he did not know of any comparable centre which embraced such a vast range of sports facilities. He described it as magnificent.
The main floodlit stadium has a 400-metre track of eight lanes, surrounding a football and hockey field. There is an all-wea-ther games pitch, and a cycle track.
Indopr facilities include three sports halls, six squash courts, five multi-purpose rooms, changing rooms for 500 competitors, a medical suite, a lecture theatre and a reference library. !
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32287, 4 May 1970, Page 19
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