LAWN TENNIS
CLUB TOR ISLAND BAY
Considering the size of the suburb Island Bay has always been badly off for tennis courts. Owing to the: arrangements- of i.tne Education. Board in respect o£ .the school site at Dee'street,' formerly: known as the Chinamen's Gardens, it has been' possible for the Island Bay Tennis Club to arrange with the board for .a lease of an area of the land at the north end adjoining Lower Wakefield Park. The club intends forming four asphalt courts, with pavilion, this year, and these will be ready for play early next season. A fifth hard court is contemplated. at an early date. The site is admirably situated for tennis, being naturally placed as to levels, and requiring a minimum of filling and making. The situation being some 20 feet ,below the level of Wakefield Park, the tennis eouts will be screened from high northerly winds. Two committees have been set up—one for management and one I for finance.
The club hopes to have all arragements made this year, and estimates that at least 100_ members will be enrolled to parV ticipate in play on the new courts, whicli may be considered when completed the' finest set of privately conducted hard courts in Wellington. It is hoped to provide for a large number of junior players between the ages of. 13 and 16.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 20
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227LAWN TENNIS Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 20
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