NEW SPORTS AREA
SARAWIA RESERVE FURTHER LAND ACQUIRED . Within a few days the whole of the new playing area of the Sarawia Reserve, Newmarket, will be top-dressed and sown in grass. Aready three and a-half acres of the area is green with young grass, and rich soil is being spread rapidly over the remaining portion. Had it not been for the big slip in the winter, when a-section of the built-up area tumbled into the valley, the playing fields would have been in grass sjgme weeks ago. But after the damaged portion had been constructed again it was necessary to await consolidation before top-dressing and sowing. The grassing of the playing field doe? not mean that all excavation work has been finished. A further two acres of land adjoining has just been obtained by the Newmarket Borough Council from the Railway Department, an<l much spoil will be obtained from this in order to construct an adequate parking area to serve the ground, and also for a roadway giving access from .vr Street. It is also proposed when this new addition is levelled to construct tennis courts. These should not be confused with those to be laid down adjoining Ayr Street by the Parnell Tennis Club, which is now carrying out excavation work.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23486, 25 October 1939, Page 6
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