SRORTSGROUND FENCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 261, 2 October 1936, Page 6

SRORTSGROUND FENCE.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —As an interested spectator of cricket, might I be allowed a space in your columns to air a grievance? Can anyone tell me why our City Council is building such a low wooden fence around the Sportsground ? All that anyone has to do now, is to stand on the new brick fence and they can see every stroke played on the oval. Surely the council can easily see what is obviously going, to happen when the English " team, the Indian team, and Hawke Cup teams visit the city this coming season. In view of the fact that we are probably going to have more representative matches played here this season than usual, I think the retailers in the city should join with the Cricket Association in launching a strong protest, as the big matches are sure to bring visitors into the city who will require to buy something before they leave. In this way surely some action ivill eventuate and perhaps the council will be induced to take down the brick and rail eyesore they have erected. Cricketers get together and protect your rights. All sportsmen in the city and in the rest of the Manawatu district could help the cricketers to obtain fair play.—l am, etc., ONE WHO PAYS TO LET OTHERS SEE FOR NOTHING.