FOOTBALL GROUNDS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 75, 31 March 1910, Page 3

FOOTBALL GROUNDS.

ALLOTMENTS AT PETONE In regard to the .illotiiietit of tho football grounds on the local recreation reserve, finality was roached by the Petone Boiough Council last evening. As a result of their deliberations. No. 2 ground goes to the Petone Rugby Football Club on payment of a fee of £7 10s ; and No. 4 ground to the local association club at a charge of £6. The third ground has not yet been leased to any club, tho council resolving to ascertain by next meeting the exact position of the two applicants— the Bt. Augustine's and the St. David's junior association clubs — in regard to their prospects of securing playing grounds outside of the recreation ground. A proposal to grant the use of one of the grounds to the local Saturday-after-noon hockey clvb — broached by Rev. T. A. Williams on the club's behalf — was not entertained. During consideration of the matter, a letter was read fioni the Wellington Rugby Union, notifying its adherence to its previous offer of £7 10s for each oi the two grounds understood to be available for Rugby. Inter alia, the letter remarked : — "These grounds are not of the best. It is doubtful whether we could play any senior matches on them unless the season proved drier than that of last year, and this figure is as much as we can afford to pay. ' Councillors decided to simply "receive" the communication, the Mayor remarking that the decision come to settled the question as fur as the union was concerned. The secretary of the Petone Rugby Club also wrote making application for the grounds on the reserve for the season 1910, pointing out at the same time that every Saturday local Rugby footballers numbered about ninety, and that if the whole, or the majority of these „ player 3 were compelled to travel every week, it would seriously affect the position of the club. It was moved by tne Mayor that two groandß be set aside for the use of the club, but the council resolved, as noted above, to allot to it only one ground. Regarding No. 3 ground, one of tne proposals is that it should be let alternately each week to the two junior association clubs applying for grounds, a weekly ground fee to be charged.

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