"VERY DISAPPOINTED"

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 110, 5 November 1935, Page 11

"VERY DISAPPOINTED"

USE OF BASIN RESERVE

"GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT"

"I am very disappointed at the action of the Reserves Committee of the City Council in limiting the use for athletics of the Basin Reserve," said Mr. A. C. Kitto, at last night's annual meeting of the Wellington Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. "For years the centre had a gentleman's agreement with the reserves committee, and the Wellington Cricket Association, with regard to the use of the Basin, and now for some reason or other we have had the number of Saturdays usually allotted vis cut in half."

Mr. Kitto said that for the past 20 years he had been a member of delegations that had waited upon the reserves committee with a view to ■ secUring a more equitable use of the city's main ground for athletics, but the position today was that the sport was actually worse off than ever. He considered that the present conditions demanded some drastic action on the part of the centre.

If, as was suggested a team of New South Wales athletes were invited to compete in Wellington this season it would be a shame, remarked Mr. Kitto, if the Basin Reserve could not be secured for their meetings.