MUNICIPAL GOLF COURSE
BUILT AT COST OF £200,000 I United IMchh . AUCKLAND. 4th July, j When the municipal golf links at Chamberlain Park are opened by the Governor-General. Viscount Galway on Thursday afternoon visitors will sec a stretch of well-grassed undulating country developed as a first-class 18hole course where previously there was a stony waste covered with gorse and blackberry. The work of transforming this area has gone on almost continuously since about the middle of 19.34. The cost has been approximately £200.000. but more than £150.000 of this has come from j the Employment Promotion Fund in the form of Government subsidies on ' the wages of hundreds of relief workers engaged.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 5 July 1939, Page 8
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