AUCKLAND DOMAIN BOARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9219, 23 November 1888, Page 6

AUCKLAND DOMAIN BOARD.

I The City Council, having transacted the j business of their regular meeting yesterday evening, the members held a meeting of the Domain Board. CONTROL OF THE CRICKET GROUND. The Domain Committee reported as follows : -Letter from Buckland and Yates con- | taining conditional offer as to tenure of | Domain Cricket Ground until 31st March, ] 1890 (referred with power to act): Your committee report that at a meeting specially held ! on the 23th September to consider the offer l made, it was resolved that on the following j terms and conditions (since accepted), Messrs Buckland and Yates be allowed to retain control of the Cricket Ground, until itlst I March, 1890, and the city solicitor has been i instructed to draft a deed embodying those I resolutions, that is to say : ,1. The Board to i hand over the sum of £92 how in its hands. I 2. The use of the Domain lodge to be allowed j Messrs. Buckland and Yates at a rental of j £5 per annum, the house to be kept insured ' and in repair at their cost. 3. The Board, reserving to itself the right to deal with and 1 appoint the ten days each year allowed by 1 Act, to charge for admission to the ground, I to hand over to Messrs. Buckland and Yates 1 all moneys received in respect of such right. i (4) The whole of the ground now available j for cricket to be kept in good order and condition throughout the said term, to the I satisfaction of the Board, and so handed over to the Board free of all liability. (5) ' The foregoing conditions to be incorporated in a bond to be signed by Messrs. Buckland and Yates individually, and the sum of £100 to be deposited by them,. with the Board as 1 security. Mr. Patterson considered that the committee had not acted properly in giving, at 1 a rental of £5 per year, a house worth £20 j for that period, and he moved a vote of j censure upon the committee. His motion ! was rejected, and the report was adopted. OK ASS-CUTTING. Nine tenders were received for grasscutting at the Domain, and that of W. Gibson (£2B) was accepted. .