ASHBURY PARK CRICKET GROUND

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21958, 9 May 1941, Page 6

ASHBURY PARK CRICKET GROUND

Sir, —I am sure that all the cricketers of South Canterbury rejoice in the assurance that the chairman if the Reserves Committee has given us, that his department is going to provide a first-class wicket prepared under expert advice, and that the planting of the boundary hedges has not been forgotten. There remains only the matter of the pavilion. The Council did not undertake to proceed with this at present, and with this decision I am in entire agreement. The formation of the ground will cost little else but labour, but the pavilion will involve building material, and we are all anxious to devote every pound to winning the war. But it will not be a cricket ground without a pavilion, and I take this opportunity of suggesting that, as soon as we have our enemies beaten, the old cricketers and sportsmen of South Canterbury shall get together and subscribe £250, asking the Council for a pound for pound subsidy. We shall then be able to »erect a pavilion for what will be “the county ground” for South Canterbury. I hope that this will come to pass in October 1942 and that then, in the presence of our boys back from the war, the Mayor will open the eround, unveiling the inscription. “This cricket ground is given by the citizens of Timaru and old cricketers of South Canterbury as a mark of gratitude to the young men who went on active service 1939—.”—! am, etc., „ H. W. MONAGHAN. Timaru, May 8.