WORK IN PROGRESS ON GREY DISTRICT SPORTS GROUNDS

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 October 1948, Page 6

WORK IN PROGRESS ON GREY DISTRICT SPORTS GROUNDS

The interval between winter and summer sports is being used to advantage by many Grey district sports organisations which are preparing grounds for summer activities or repairing the wear and teai caused by play during the season which has just closed. The Greymouth Recreation ground has been harrowed by members of the staff of the Greymouth Borough Council, and Grey cricket clubs are now well on with the work of forming two pug wickets between the boundaries of the hockey and- soccer grounds. A pug wicket is also being laid by the Kaimoto club on the No 1 Rugby field at Omoto, while working bees have been busy in an endeavour to put the Cobden recreation ground back into playable order. The playing fields at Rugby Park which began to show signs of deterioration towards the end of the season, are now being top-dressed, while at the Rugby League ground at Wingham Park the first steps have been taken to form a third field on the Runanga side of the stand. A bulldozer commenced operations on Monday afternoon and the field, which will run at right angles to the present two fields, is being levelled. Grass will be sown as soon as these preparations have been completed and it is hoped to have the field ready for play next season. Though no immediate steps are being taken, the West Coast Basketball Association hopes to increase the number of courts under its control before the opening of next/ season, and at a meeting on Tuesday night decided to accept an offer by the Grey Harbour Board of a year-to-year lease of the “frog-pond” area between Packers’ quay and Blake street,' Blaketown. The association will now apply to the Greymouth Borough Council for assistance in preparing p number of playing courts on the large area made available to it .