WOODHAUGH GARDENS.

Evening Star, Issue 14629, 27 July 1911, Page 4

WOODHAUGH GARDENS.

FOOTBALL GROUND OR RESERVE? An ovcrwhebiiiic'ly large di puiatjon waited on the- City Council a ferinhrhf airo lo petition lor tin' apportionment e:f pait ol the \Vn<xlhati;di Gardens for foot ball ;.n;I iiockev oiouikLs. I.nsl night a ejtro'c_' counter petition, sipied by 50 ho-u.-ehelecis in the vicinity, was prciscnLcd by a- deputation headed'by Pioi\v&)r Sahnond. The 1.-arncd .spoke.atiau poii.Uxi cm that a iter all footba'der,- were only ;i vety small ;-.;>•;• fion of the pnpnJation, and that ti:e citizens in bulk would k, best served if the ! !<[jerve. " \v» loft, in the hands of Mr TaniioJi, villi his inecmperuble iv arb'uua! oiT.ainen'.alK.'n." Jhe p:ve. iO:d | OiljectK) lr, tread ill ihe \"H'Ai'J'.i We!'c l-li'.i i the j,:-op</vd "would entail the j (■i a ceit-am aimue't of native bus:: and l.bi! urr'H'lM!;.; of .-mii'lrs planted at e<n.- : StdcruUe WifUS'' ; (hat it eeiuan 1 -iiso-d ] for lurlher .laciHlh- ;<,,■ i'-'Ju! I::i.ll these j should Ik' provided on poriioies of tho | I'mni Beit .siluatc-d in localities not r><> j adequately supplied ;is. th:s | eriion v. as ; i that. the'WotMiieureh G aniens i'.' ! ibae.st scenic reserve in t-!>«- Beit, euiitainin.: : valuable specimens of tin- native if .ra : that these gardens ivere nraeh Requeued ' . w,-..i,0i! -aim I'niidio!]. h.-iii" thi' "nk :_'....:! picnic ground within wl-v of the City, and co:uv<.;i;>.iniy, if lac prupo,.;b .sure tr'iven eiieet to. tle-ir interests niu.-i necessarily fitdier ; thai the con's n would be virtue 1 !;,- COiiim''■!.;!.'.: a. b.ca'h <>\ j.oli: villi the cwii'im <■• tin j)ro;)eil.'e'. on the west idd,; of G.:ci'-o avi-nijc to tho Loith Inklcc, j:i.-=i mic'i ah those pcciplo" vri>i'« induced l--» KLirtcudt:!' their rip::a::n rights and coiim :.' to ifo'versiun <>l" the l/cith and the !'!!J!n. it ■.-,: [he old bed on liic u'ldeicttird:)):; tiiat it was to bo plaiiU-d \vit!J ami i o -oin-.i part of the jo:!iiati<in of a football ground to ck>e io imiies weald be a, i/rcat from the. inovitaliie noise, and a.bo tiro .inui-:-:-- ! uouid pi'olia.l,pl.y bo dutie to properties ill | various ways ;" that liy feliin;: d ] ortia; ic ■ thus buftli the council would ho depnvin.' ; iiic -reat jnajeiity of the eithe.a of th-- ! ciijoyinciit t.h.\v now dei'ived ftom tiitu re-- \ .-.'-■rvo in cider to enable .some oO iticn i-.r ■ an hour and a-lialf ence a va <■!: dur:n.: s:k niontiis eif the year to iii'.i'.'aL'tt in a jAjpulax ;;a;ne. j 'J'he potiiion wn.s icfon-ed to di Peec-l'ves j Cainnifi too. j