THE BOROUGH COUNCIL AND RECREATION GROUNDS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 12120, 23 December 1913, Page 8

THE BOROUGH COUNCIL AND RECREATION GROUNDS.

I . f (To 1 the Editor.) Sir,—The fallowing words tittered last'.'Friday night in Dunedin by an American, lecturer may possibly have, some slight passing interest in*® city whoso Couneil declines to spend one ■sixpence of the ratepayers' mouo.v on their ofl'ii recreation groundWhile l Jour country -is young, and you have no vei:y" large, cities, you. will "tlo- tMI to make provision for " "your '"future playgrounds. Do not' think only, of fin© streets :and.'drninage system arid other .necessities, but think of 'play a ! l 4. as a necessary .part'of civic life; .arid you, will not go far •wj'ofng. Soli'ncr or later. bitter experi;ence ivill teach you ; it is a. ■ necessity, arid if you desire toVprofit by the example of. other "places .yon will pcrl)A|is ..avoid' the hitter experience."— I am, etc,. : TIRED.