VOLUNTEERING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13674, 17 August 1908, Page 5

VOLUNTEERING.

PARADE GROUND FOR DUNEDIN. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, August 15 A deputation lepiesentmg- the volunteer forces ot Dunedin waited on the Hon R McNab t!hi«t afternoon to uige upon lam the importance t,Q tlie local defence forces of retaining Forbmy Park in its present btate i Colonel Stoneham sud that it was ab solufcely impcbsible to do anything m the way of military evolutions On any other ground in Dunedin, and if Forbury Park were lost the volunteers Would! have go out of town which wts practically din possible Tlie corporation having a good many other financial concerns in hand, were cnarjf' about, undertaking' any more and could 'hardly ha blamed The deputation proposed that either the Government or the Defence Department should guarantee a certain proportion as rental and. the sports bodies wo.uld, he be lieved, be willing to contribute and enable the Council to do the- rest. Some thing life a couple ot hundred pounds a. year would perhaps do i Mr McNab said that all he could say i just now was that he wa«t m sympathv with the movement He knew of his own knowledge of Dunedin that Forbury Park must lie the 1 only giound suitv'able' for their puiposes and something must be kept for volunteer movements Nothing" could be*promised buf he would see if anything could be done <