NGAMOTU FORESHORE

Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1935, Page 7

NGAMOTU FORESHORE

MORE ATTRACTIONS AT BEACH. PLAYGROUND AND TENNIS COURTS With the laying of concrete foundations and the erection of the wooden framework for swings, slides and roundabouts, the children’s playground at Ngamotu beach, New Plymouth, the object of the work of several committees for a number of years, is well on the way to completion. It is but one of many improvements the Ngamotu beach committee has planned to make. On Sunday members of the committee did work that makes the playground only a matter of waiting, for after two weeks have been allowed for the concrete to set the apparatus will be erected. Additions will be made as funds permit. Comprising large and small swings, a roundabout, large and small slides and a see-saw, the equipment, which cost £l5B, arrived at New Plymouth from Auckland last week. The framework is made of massive steel that is capable of a long life despite tire hard wear it is likely to receive. The plantation to the east of the pavilion is the site of the playground and provides a good turf that should help to make a clean and popular area. The annual gala day at Ngamotu beach on New Year’s day will serve also for the opening of the new attraction. With the formation of the Ngamotu beach committee after the New Plymouth Harbour Board vested the control of the beach in the New Plymouth Borough Council, and after the Ngamotu Seaside Resorts Company and the Ngamotu Beach Beautifying and Improvement Society had been disbanded, a plan of progressive improvements, which were to be put into operation as funds permitted, was adopted. A donation specially for the children’s playground was received from the old society. Other improvements being effected by the new committee are a road along the beach in front of the cottages from Pioneer Road to Bayly Road, at present under construction, and the provision of tennis courts.