LOGAN PARK.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19904, 25 September 1926, Page 25

LOGAN PARK.

THE WORK OH DEMOLITION ORDER BEGINNING TO APPEAR. Of late little has been heard of Logan Park, but much work is going ahead there steadily and when next the public visit? die park it will find it a greatly transformed recreation ground. Ihe demolition of the huge main buildings is a big undertaking, and it has been taken in hand methodically. The No 3 building, whic i, it will bo lernemberod, contained the provincial courts and many excellent industrial displays, is the first to go, and its site is now vacant .waiting to be levelled and laid down as a sports ground, this is part of the University playing area and as the University authorities have funds in hand for the purpose, the work will no doubt be authdJdsed without delay. Much work has been done on the festival Dal which is now a mere skeleton, with all the interaial fittings and woodwork removed. In a short time the big yellow dome will cease to be a familiar landmark from the hills about the city. il.c wreckers have made a start on No, o building, the great extent of which impresses one anew as one gazes across the barren, empty floor. Almost all buildings in the amusement zone have, of course, boon cleared away, and the women s rest room and the fernery have found new homes elsewhere, but many of the minor buildings still remain with the old familial notices upon them. The big area of waste sand where excited treasure-seekers scratched ludicrously with wooden spades has now been all levelled down, and is well on the way to become a model sports ground. After the sand had boon carefully levelled, throe inches of clay was spread over it, and on lop of that again was spread two inches ot fine black soil. All this has been dusted of fine black soil. All this has been dusted over with lime, and yesterday men were busy sowing it clown in grass seed and raking off stones. A hanked running track has to be formed round it, and then there is the question of the grandstand to he decided. Tor this public ground nearly all the good soil on the various flower bods about the park has been used up. The work has been well done by a squad of men who wore lately out of employment. The ponds in the old stand court are still holding the water remarkably well, considering their early history. They are to bo filled in from the roads on cither side of the court, which are well above the general level of the park. The flower bods that have been emptied of their soil will also require to bo filled in Now that the controversy over the Art Gallery has been definitely decided, preparations are being made for its adornment, and Mrs P, R. Sargood has presented elms and flowering cherries to be planted beside its walls. Logan Park, it must bo admitted, is still a scene of somewhat unsightly confusion, but it is not the depressing sight it was some months ago. Order is beginning to appear through the chaos, and the discerning eye can see rich promise of a magnificent civic playground soon to be an aeeornrl'slied fact