CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6] — Page 488

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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

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