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PLAYING FIELDS.
Future of Caroline Hill.
COMMITTEE NOT UNANIMOUS.
Having published the report and recommendations of the Play- ing Fields Committee in its entirety, wa now give the text of the re- servations in regard to Caroline Hill.
Reservation by Hon. Mr. J. P.
Braga and Mr. M. K. Lo. 1-We regret the necessity for this reservation but we are unable to sign the Report without it on account of its recommendations relating to Caroline Hill as con- tained in paragraph 11 (a) and and paragraph 12 of that Report, with which we are in disagreement.
the adequacy or otherwise of playing fields in the city. This, of course, is an entirely non- racial question: but the fact that a rapidly growing number of Chinese, who constitute such a large proportion of the population of Hong Kong. la taking up Sport, must be an important factor on the ques- tion of adequacy.
(e) It is interesting to note that
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1930. -
square should be tidied up at public expense and seats could be arranged at the base of the fall- way embankment on the east side.
7-Fourthly: Kowloon Tong,
We bellove areas are availabla here which could be appropriated for public recreation on the north- ern side of the Estate. This should be done, but the district is open and well kept and calls more for a playing field than an open space such as we are chiefly deal ing with.
ST. GEORGE'S DAY.
Arrangements for April 23.
BAND CONCERT.
(b) 'We need hardly enlarge on the
fact that the Chinese, in pro portion to the number of the Colony by way of ratos and taxes, are inadequately provided for in the matter of public re- creation grounds. The Playing Fields Committee recognise the cramped area within which the Chinese Recreation Club is con- fined in its allotment in Queen's
St. George's Day, April 23, Is Recreation ground at Causeway
to be celebrated on similar lines Bay. Apart from that allot
to last year. At 11 a.m. the Pre- ment and another small allot-
sident, supported by the Commit- ment inside the Race Course In B-A member of this Sub-Com-tee, will deposit a wreath at the Hong Kong, and two allotments mittes elicited the Information Cenotaph and it is hoped that the in Kowloon, the Chinese, who from the Chairman, at the meetling brief ceremony will be attended are taking very extensively to of the General Committee on Nay by members of the Society. open-air games and autdoor ember 4, that the hill within Kow- The Buglers of the Somerset sports, de, not enjoy theloon Tong Estate, marked on the Light Infantry, Prince Albert's, facilities comparable to the Town-planning Map, as reserved will sound "Retreat" on the Hong other sections of the communi- for Railway purposes, will be cut Kong Cricket Club Ground at 5.30 ty. That Caraline Hill partial. down to road level and be main p.m.. by kind permission of Lt.- ly, though inadequately, sup-tained as a park, We are de Col. C. H. Little, D.S.O., and there plies the want which had been Anitely of opinion that this area, will follow a concert by the Re- felt very keenly there can be no as well as all others within the gimental Band from the steps of This denying, and the S.C.A.A.' Estate, Intended for playgrounds the Cricket Club Pavilion. deprivation of the Caroline Hill and 'lungs' should be permanently has been arranged by courtesy of allotment would be a serious reserved as such, by legislative the Hong Kong Cricket Club. hardship on the 4,000 odd enactment if necessary, against The principal function in con- members who at present make building encroachments in future. nection with the celebrations will 9-We have not been able to be an entertainment for the Ser up that Association, and whose numbers are constantly on the overhaul the remainder of the vices at, the Lee. Theatre, which Peninsula. Some portions have has kindly been placed at the dis- already been dealt with by the posal of the Society by the Lee Mr. W. A. General Committee, for example, Hysan Estates, Ltd. the reclaimed swamp near the pro- Dowley is organising the concert posed Nathan Square and other and the programme will be pub round In the Prince Edward lished in the press very shortly. Was a great Road region, at both ends of the Last year's concert road.
success and there is every reason we consider are minimum require no less successful.
10. We have recommended what to believe that this year's will be
The enter ments for public grounds. There tainment will commence
at 8.80
increase.
of the total acreage of 87.83 acres available for allotment by the permanent Recreation Grounds Committee only 14% per cent. has been allotted to Chinese. This does not in-i clude ground such as the Hong Kong Cricket Club and the 5. Apart from our disagreement Kowloon Football Club, which on the specific suggestion for allena- do not come within the per- tion of Caroline Hill, for the rea- manent Recreation Grounds sons detailed in this Reservation we Committee. If the appro- concur in the general views and ximate area of these grounds recommendations embodied in the were also included the per- Report.
2-We do not agree to the sale of the Caroline Hill area, at present and for some time paet allocated and extensively used as a playing field, as "a means of financing the more expeditious completion" by the Government of the scheme for reclaiming and laying out Aber- deen Inlet for recreation grounds. 1. Our reasons for disagree- ment are as follows:- (a) The carving of Caroline Hill for building purposes would spoil the amenities of the Soo- kumpoo Valley now almost ex- clusively devoted to the pur- рове of playing fields the benefits of which are enjoyed by men of the Services as well! as by civilians of all nation-Area alities. The conspicuously successful Grand Tattoo, held for a period of three consecu- tive days in October 1928, when thousands of residents of, and visitors to, the Colony, enjoyed a magnificent spectacle staged in an ideal and unique setting suficiently demon- atrates the value of Sookum- poo Valley being retained and maintained for its present pur- poses without the Incumbrance
of buildings for residential
purposes, for which
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suitable sites might be found elacwhere on the Island, and preferably, at Kowloon.
(b) The value and the cost of the land should not, in our opinion, constitute a deciding factor in the consideration of the question as to whether or not it should be retained as a recreation ground. Indeed, if that were a decisive factor in such a question, it would be difficult to justify the retention of playing fields occupying im- mensely more valuable areas within the City limits, e.g. the Hong Kong Cricket Club ground, which, we understand, is worth about five and a half million dollars. The might be said of the extensive area within King's Park at Kowloon which, for Its entire acrenge, has a value far in ex- ceas of that which may be assessed for Caroline Hill. And yet the permanent reser- vation of King's Park for play- ing fields and as an open area
-
same
very wise `measure' Indeed has been secured by legisla- tion.
(c) The recommendation
that
Caroline. Hill should be sacri- ficed in favour of the Aberdeen Valley scheme on the ground that the latter provides nine. times the area which the former does le, to our mind, unsound, because of the vital question of accessibility. The distance of Aberdeen Valley. and its difficulty of access, In point of time and expense, as compared with Caroline Hil | which thousands
+
20
centage allotted to the Chinese Dated this 21st day of January would be even less. The fol- One thousand nine hundred and lowing summary shows the thirty. present allotments:-
Acrea
J. P. BRAGA, M. K. Lo. at Wong Nel Chong R.G. 24.24
Reservation by Commander F. H. Caroline Hill R.G... 6.57 D. Byron, R.N., and Captain C. A. Queen's R.G....... 11.67 de Linde, R.E. Sookumpoo Valley
We do not concur in the proposal R.G.
10.36 for the sale of Caroline Hill for the 34.49
purpose of developing the Aberdeen
King's Park R.G.
Total Allotted to:-
area.
87.88
(1) British 28.94 acres or 38% (2) Army 9.53
11% (8) Navy....13.68
164% (4) Chinese ..12.97 (5) Schools &
other nation-
alities 20.49
Police & St. Joseph's College 1.72
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20.91
F
+
87.33
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F. H. D. BYRON.
C. A. DE LINDE
Hong Kong, January 1980.
APPENDIX VII.
144%
Report of the Kowloon Sub- Committee.
to
the
are many other areas which we p.m. and it is hoped that mem- have examined but, for one reason bers of the Society will attend in For other, do not recommend. We strong force to act as hosts. hold the opinion that certain of the Tickets of admission spaces we have named should be Theatre are being sent out to all resumed from private ownership resident members of the Society.
all proportion to the expenditure,
at an early date.
:
J. P. BRAGA, E. COOK.
Kowloon Sub-Committee, Playing Fields Committee. Kowloon, November 18, 1929.
APPENDIX VIII.
Memerandum Regarding Public
Tennis Courts
E. COCK.
APPENDIX IX.
A Suggestion for the Use of Small Areas in Hong Kong as
Playgrounds
In these days it is unnecessary to emphasize the importance of I beg to request the Committee game, and of providing playing The sub-committee, appointed at to ask the Government to provide facilities for as many of the popu the meeting held on November 4public tennis courts.
lation as possible. It is im- have made two tours of Kowloon possible for anyone who does not
In Hong Kong, until recent 25% with a view more to finding open belong to one or other of the many years, playing fielda" connoted spaces for rest and recreation than clube to get a game of tennis, pro-areas large enough for cricket ar playing folds. We have come to the bably the most international of football: 'grounds' were at least following general conclusions: all games. (a) That there is not the same con- cannot prove it, that there are
I am sure, although I large enough for one tennis court. It has been demonstrated, how- gestion in Kowloon as there is many Chinese who, educated in one ever, that areas ever smaller than In Hong Kong, principally be or other of the foreign schools tennis court may be used to cause the roads are wide and cannot get opportunities to play good purpose for certain" games,
# 100% (f) If the present allotment with
an area of about 5 acres, to the S.C.A.A., were withdrawn, the total area of playing fields now enjoyed by the Chinese in: Hong Kong and Kowloon would only, amount to about 8 acres out of the total of about 82
acres.
(8) In paragraph 4 of the Report
it has been pointed out that the necessity for adequate
'here and there are
dotted tennis which they probably have such as volley ball and basket ball, cases of low buildings or even learnt at school and there are and that these games are suitable no buildings at all. Many of other nationals also who aresting to players and watchers, for general play. They are inter-
similarly situated.
the Interesting roade terminate on the water front and these
foster a team spirit, and are con- Public Municipal tennis courts ducive to mental alertness. open ends do give a feeling
are provided at Shanghai, New of "airiness" which is not so
At the Chinese Y.M.C.A.,.Bridges marked on
the Hong Kong York, Chicago, Vancouver and Street, a small ground (80 ft. x side.
understand Australia as well as 80 ft.) has been used for these That small open spaces dotted at home. The game is one which over the Peninsula are possible can be and is played by artificial Samies for sixteen years with good results. · Every year during the light and courts on which play period more than 1,000 boys, from 2.---Dealing, firstly, with that was possible up to, say 10 pm 10 to 15 different schools, have portion of the Peninsula Bouth of would be a boon to people who gen made use of this ground, under and very rapid growth of Austin Road, we recommend that ferally work. until 5 p.m.
or later supervision, et stated periods.
open spaces has been realised (b) only in recent years and that "this has been particularly the cado in Hong Kong where the games spirit has been a recent
and desirable.
In
modern times among the large the following spaces, be kept and whom darkness prevents from other places even smaller grounda Chinese population of the clear for all time!---
having any other daily exercise have been similarly used.
Colony," Admittedly "it is too
takes of the past in Victoria
and in some parts of Kowloon -except at · prohibitive cost.” We consider that the allenation (b) of Caroline Hill would be one
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late now to remedy the mis (a) The triangular space bound-than a walk when their evening
meal is over. ed by Humphreys Buildings,
In King's Park there Several of the larger schools Cameron Buildings and Emis ground which is unsuitable for now use the small areas about their press Lodge.
football, which, if made into tennis buildings for organised play, but The rectangular space bound-courts would increase the area und many smaller institutions have no If a few ed by Nathan Road, Granville for football, as the netting around plot of ground at all.
the tennis courts would stop foot areas, in both Hong Kong and Kow- Road, Carnarvon Road, and balls from going into the roads loon, could be found and al- which it would be futile toe) At least a portion of the South end of the two public foot could be made for the boys in the The ground I refer to in at the located for this purpose; provision
of those grave mistaken over
lament in future. We con- sider that the site is an ideal,
one for recreation purposes
Kimberley Road.
ground on which Bungalow stands..
Chater
ball grounds-it is level and would smaller private schools, and for a 8.-We also recommend that call for the minimum expenditure considerable number of street and the excepting for a very portions of the Railway Ground on There is other ground in Kowloon boys as well. A beginning should urgent public purpose, any the east side of the railway best which is too irregular to two In Hong Kong and two in Kow- notably the railway ground at be made with a few plots only, say, policy advocating the sacrifice utilised forthwith for public re
of Caroline Hill for a monetary creation grounds, the position have turn into large recreation folde loon. consideration would be sub-
The following scheme is ang. ing the advantage of being near but which could be terraced into versive to the sporting in at hand. can reach
ggested for the management of from their offices, and the
terests of the community..
The tenure of these courts. grounds could be short; at pre-
I would suggest a start with these grounds: -Naval men from the-ships in 4-We have, we hope, said sent large areas are doing no set three courts at each of these 1. That a Small Playing Grounds
the harbour and the soldiers enough to show that Caroline Hillvice at all,
We should like the placés: from their barracks and their should be retained as a permanent Naval representative to say whe The cost of construction, "and" social headquarters within city recreation ground, subject to any ther these grounds could be ad-running, these courts would be a limita by easy methods of mass imperative public needs of the equately made use of by men of the minute fraction of Government ex- transportation, such as the Colony. As we agree with para China Squadron, the only thing they should be refused on the penditure and I see no reason why exleting tram and bus services, graph. 7(e) of the Report, namely, wanting, to our minds, being around that they may not be self militates against whatever to leave as far as possible to the pier for direct access,
so, besides, a given Area: will)
Association' ba formed, to pro- vide equipment and to control any grounds that might be allotted to it, either for tem- porary or permanent use. One such central control is important, as overlapping in appeals to a community le objectionable and should be obylated. .....
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other advantages that may discretion of the permanent Re 4-Secondly: Yaumati District supporting although I believe that reasonably be claimed for the creation Grounds Committee all de. This is the most congested part in the course of time they will be Aberdeen Inlet Schemes Totalled testions of individual allot of the Peninsula and neede parti-serve more people if it is divided 2. As adequate supervision Is the majority of frequenters of ments we are anxious not to depart cular attention. Sooxumpoo Valley for pur from this policyWe foel, how 6-We think suitable areas can like games than if it were kept for up to courts for tennis and such poses of sport the cost of a ver, constrained to express our be found as follows: Journey to and from Aberdeen decided opinion as to the strong (a) At the corner of Wal Ching necessity is as great as public football and I submit, that the (which is a real consideration moral claim of the B.C.A.A. to the
and Salgon Streets perhaps bathing beaches and the season- because of the amallness of retention of the present allotment
6,000 square feet. their wages). would be pro for the following reasons pe
(b) Area bounded by Canton Road, coincide with the termination of able operations of the one could hibitive, not to speak of the | (m) We understand that it was Battery and Public Square the other, thereby using the same time lost in a winter even
streets. About one third of staff throughout the year this area, in its centre, I have already put these points. taken up by a cheap Chinese before the Kowloon Residents"-"as- Cinema theatre Weat of Shanghai Street and they were unanimous in their sup sociation to get their views, and South of Waterloo Road is a small area which would be very Showing the popularity of tennis for mall play in three Important clubs, vis, the Hong Kong Cricket Club, Kowloon Gricket Claband Kowloor Foot- ball Club the secondary, wame of tennis-is-playad by probably
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essential if niall grounds are to be used satisfactorily, the -Association should employ A Superviser of Play. In some elles in the West, where there are many such playgrounds, the supervisor has several aa- sistants. In other places, ho gets all his help from volun-: teers. I believe playgrounds In Hong Kong could be super- vised by one employed man and voluntary・・ assistants. A school or club will sometimes supply all necessary" volunteer belp for a small ground In Ita neighbourhood. p
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