A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE.
[By Telegraph. — Special to The Post.] FEILDING, This Day. Feilding has had a unique experience recently. Its cricketers, who haven't even a ground fit to practice on, began an agitation in favour of getting a cricket ground for the town. £ strong deputation waited on the Borough Council, with a request to be allowed to turn the centre of reserve into a cricket ground, and offered to contribute £50 towards the cost of the work. After a keen debate a majority of the council agreed. Then the cricketers went after their £50, nearly £20 of which was readily subscribed. A garden party was being organised, when Air. Chas. Carr suggested that a swimming carnival bo held In his artificial lake. (There are no baths in Feilding, but proposals for such come before the ratepayers next month.) The Carr suggestion was taken up eagerly, and to carry it out a Feilding Amateur Swimming Club was formed. The club is only ten days old ; to-day it has 46 members, and 63 swimmers, from Wanganui down to Palmerston, have entered for next Saturday's carnival. The 63 swimmers make a total of 456 entries for the various events— surely a record.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 26, 31 January 1908, Page 7
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199A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE. Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 26, 31 January 1908, Page 7
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