MILLERTON NOTES

Grey River Argus, 20 June 1925, Page 7

MILLERTON NOTES

-— tl dir own Correspondent) A meeting was recently held to dismiss the handing over to the i>*:main Board the subscriptions lai’.cn at the mini’. After much d.scU.-sioD it was decided to adjourn until h ■ Hon. .Ur Mclntyre could attend. ('me would like to set' the new recreation ground gone on with. ■ im the same applies to the spectators at S<>( cor games, who need goggles at presei’T to cope with the dust. Ihe (’o;d (’ompanw paid a T rester sum ■- thing like £‘soo for ‘the beaut ii\,ng of Millerton, Granity, and Dennis ton, hut his report seems .meiy to be the- only result Millerton will s?<'The Company had been wiser i: it had handed half that amount, to the Committee for the new recreation ground, as Mr Mclntyre promised to get a State subsidy if ,£1(HI were publicly raised, and if he can gei a subsidy for the old domain, where turfing cdforts an' a waste of enernv. ho surely could obtain a subsidy ior the new ground as ream , I ii *n the old ground could be given to the I duration Department. The pre>.'-;r domain will cost as much as the i < v. one, and the school children will *<■ • let the grass grow on it. seeing that it. is their playground.