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grounds (though still to a _ great extent necessary for completing the sanitary requirements) costs only about $7,000 out of the $40,000 - while
$
by
it an addition of
some 18/4/2
acres is made to the recreation
ground and a great public improvement is effected.
There is one other
reason which renders it~
very
desirable not to postpone
this scheme.
In the spring of last
year
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year a newly formed club. _ called the Athletic Club, applied for a lease of the Bowrington Gardens - about 7 acres in ~ extent - which they proposed
Gardens-about
to convert into tennis courts,
tracks etc.- and,
running
apparently overlooking the ~ contemplated scheme of adding these gardens to the public recreation ground_ Mr Fleming promised the Club a lease of the gardens for 7 year
at a nominal rent.
Objections