BASIN RESERVE

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 93, 13 January 1939, Page 3

BASIN RESERVE

Proposed Improvement Of Seating

START WHEN MONEY IS AVAILABLE

The work of extending the seating accommodation at the Basin Reserve, approved by the Wellington City Council, is not likely to be carried out before the arrival of Sir Julien Cahn’s cricket teain from England, the chairman of the reserves committee, Mr. W. Duncan, said yesterday. The English team is to play a match against a New Zealand team at the Basin Reserve in March, after playing at centres between Auckland and Wellington.

Referring to a report that the Wellington Cricket Association had been Informed that the work was intended and had therefore decided to make no change in its charges for admission, Mr. Dunean sail] rlnrt when the Darlington Road site had been decided on for a Wellington motor camp, the money te be used on the Basin Reserve improvements was diverted to the other project, which was one of the greatest importance. The extension of the seating accommodation at the cricket ground would be carried out as soon as money was available. The intention was to extend the seats in front of the grandstand both north and south, almost to the fence on each side, he said. They would also be carried down to within 12 feet of the picket fence surrounding the actual ground, and this would be lowered a foot or two. The popular strip of lawn to the north of the grandstand would be left Fs it "'as.