NEW RECREATION GROUND.
EPSOM RESERVE OPENED. MAYOR PERFORMS CEREMONY. The new playing area in Pencarrow Avenue, Epsom, held by the City Council as a public reserve, was officially opened yesterday by the Mayor, Mr. G. Baildon, who kicked off at the first school football match to be played there, between the Auckland Grammar Schools.
The area, which comprises three and a-half acres, was formerly a waste of rocky land and was transformed by gangs of unemployed men seeking relief work. The transformation into a recreation ground entailed removing large boulders, filling in and levelling hollows and sowing grassi In all, the cost of the work was £3700 and this expenditure has resulted in the addition of a valuable asset to the district. The ground affords a fine playing-field for all children in the district, which is not well provided with reserves, and it will be used every Friday afternoon for school cricket and football matches and other sports.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20252, 11 May 1929, Page 10
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