DAY'S BAY GROUNDS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 95, 16 January 1926, Page 14

DAY'S BAY GROUNDS

PROPOSAL TO REDIOVE FRONT FENCE. “When the pavilion and its grounds at picturesque Day’s Bay were owned by the late Dlr. j. H. Williams, and a charge was made for admission thereto, it was only reasonable,” writes “11. P. “that they should be fenced in. But now these grounds lire the property of the people of Wellington, and no charge is ever made for admission, the. case is altogether different, and the long drab unpainted fence along the parade is unnecessary, and a positive inconvenience to thousands of picnickers. Apart from the motor entrance at the so - ’them end of the grounds, there is only the one main entrance, that opposite the wharf, so that if people coming from the northern end wish to enter the sports grounds (at that end) thev have to trail all the way along to the main entrance, and then retrace their steps inside the fence. Similarly, if picnic, kers encamped on the sports grounds wish to visit the beach right opposite to them, they have to walk nearly a quarter of a mile to reach their objective—all without any very particular reason

“I would like to suggest to the Reserves Committee of the City Council that the whole of the fence L-opposite the sports grounds at all events —be removed, and its place taken by a low brick or concrete wall, flat-topped, about 18 inches in height, which would form a convenient seat for tired folk. The grounds would not suffer one j<’t through being opened up in this manner and the idea is in accordance with what is being done with private reserves tlie world over.”