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Bonghong, one of the most conspicuous and most unfortunate in it's
consequences, was the omission to
provide any Ground, such as is reserved in
Public Park, or Recreation
new town in
the plan of every Australia and New-Zealand; and
is more particularly required in the tropical climate of this Colony There has been nothing of the Kind here hitherto except an utterly. inadequate cricket-field and in Parade ground adjoining the Military Barracks. In the opinion
of
of the most competent judges, the health alike of the Garrison and of
the Civil population has suffered
grievously from this
causés.
2.
among
other
And yet Nature has
provided, near the Eastern end of the City, a place admirably adapted, in most respects, for a Publie Park, the Wong-Nei-Chong, or, as it has
been called by the English, the "Happy Valley . A race-course, that
in
constant adjunct of every English
community throughout the world,
already