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REPORT OF THE PLAYING FIELDS COMMITTEE.

STRONG PLEA BY MR. LQ AND MR. BRAGA FOR CAROLINE HILL.

TENNIS COURTS AND PROPER PLAYGROUNDS RECOMMENDED.

We published below the second part of the report of the Playing Fields Committee, including the strong plea by Messrs. J. P. Braga and M. K. Lo on behalf of the. retention of Caroline Hill as recreation area.

The report of the Kowloon Sub-Committee makes valuable re- commnendations for various areas. What Mr. Cock has to say about the provision of tennis courts and Mr. J. L. McPherson about playgrounds also merils consideration alike by public and officials In the section of the report given below stress is again laid upon the need to check on the Peninsula, the overcrowding and the lack of open spaces characteristic of the City of Victoria. The ganes spirit, gaining ground with astonishing rapidity among the Chinese, must receive recognition and the sub-Committees urge that provision must be made for more tennis courts and football fields. The children of people.now content to watch will want to play, and this healthy and proper ambition should be encouraged in a British Colony.

THE CHINESE NEED MORE PLAYING FIELDS.

Areas

The report continues as follows: Throughout our enquiries we have avoided consideration of any ques- tions in regard to the present or future nllotment of grounds to in- dividual clubs and have confined ourselves to the recommendation of suitable

for reservation, leaving matters of detailed alloca- tion to the permanent Reclama tion Grounds Committee, which might allot the new grounds to such clubs as would be willing to develop them and put them in order for play, no we realize that Gov. ernment is not likely to be able to provide funds to lay out and turf the whole of these grounds for a very long time.

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Games and Playgrounds

-Association.”

It has been represented to us that certain small open spaces both in Hong Kong and on the Main- land might be used with",

grent benefit to the localities in which they are situated if they were de voted to organised games like Tolleyball and basketball. We un derstand that for 18 years a small plot of ground at the Chinese YM.C.A. in Bridges Street has been so used for organized games- under Y.M.C.A. supervision to the great advantage of over 1,000 boys from 10 to 15 schools in the neigh bourhood at a comparatively small cost, and that other small schools have followed suit on small plots) near their school premises. We un- derstand from Mr. 3. L. McPher son, the Secretary of the Chinese F.M.C.A., that if further ground. were made available this movement might be extended for the benefit of other school boys and strees boys Mr. McPherson pointed out however that some central organi- zation would be necessary to collect finds for the provision of equip ment, to organize and supervise the games and to see that all children had a fair share in the use of the grounds. He suggested Association might be

With regard to tenure however it has been strongly urged upon us that the system of annual alleen tion renders the tenure of the areas so insecure that Clubs are naturally disinclined to incur large expen, diture on improvements. The deve lopment of the new areas auggested in this report should reduce the necessity for restricting the rights of a club to a very short tenure and we consider that it would be in the interest of the recreation facilities of the Colony that Clubs should be granted sufficiently long tenure to make it worth their while to develop their grounds and put permanent buildings upon them, that an such questions of length of tenure, formed for this purpose to be called etc., to be settled in each case on the Small Playing Grounds As- the advice of the permanent Re-sociation" to which any available creation Grounds Committee. grounds could be allotted by the the same time we consider that

Recreation Grounds Committee. parts of the new areas should be This Association could employ a preserved as public playgrounds supervisor of piny nasisted by unallocated to any particular in volunteer help which we have ren terests and free to all to come and

son to think would be forthcoming. play on.

We are indebted to Mr. McPherson We consider that generally speak for the memorandum on this sub. ing the allotment of all public ject which forms Appendix IX, to playing fields and such open spaces this report. We feel that Mr. Mc- as it might be desirable to use for Pherson's proposal deserves every games and such (Crown Land ne encouragement both from Govern might be. temporarily made avail-ment and from the public, as it. able for games should be in is only by the organization of the discretion of the Recreation games that full use can be made Grounds Committee, subject to the of public play-grounds provided at approval of Government, and that public expense for the poorer child- it would be much in the interest of fen of the community.

We have all concerned if the annual meeting learned with much interest of the of this Committee for the purpose success which has attended the making allotments could take organization of games on public place in March rather than later Playgrounds elsewhere and we con in the year,

sider that the iden is capable of We have only one other recom- very useful development in Hong mendation to add on this subject Kong. We annex to this report a and that is that the permanent Re-Appendix X. a memorandum on creation Grounds Committee should the organization of games in give due consideration to the claims of Vernacular Schools for allotments on applications by such schools through the Director of Education.

Public 'Tennis Courts.

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Colombo kindly furnished by the Chairman of the Colombo Muni- cipality. The memorandum well illustrates the development of which, this idea is capable.

Conclusion.

It has been represented to us

Before closing our report we de- that there is a numerous class of aire to express our indebtedness to persons in the Colony, composed of the Honourable the Director of strious races, who, having little Public Works who provided for us. time or means of obtaining other often at very short notice; pluns out-door exercise are, anxious to of the inany areas which we had play lawn tennis and yet are pre The large size of the Committee, under review from time to time. vented by one reason or another from joining tennis clube, that such the great number of areas visited people would gladly avail them and reviewed, the mass of detail selves of any public facilities for involved and the length of the pro- the game that might be provided, ceedings at most of the meetings and that the cost of making, super threw very heavy work on the vising, and maintaining # few Secretary which he discharged with bard tennis courts would be abafalling courtesy and promptness. very small item of Government We desire to place on record our special and recurrent expenditure, high appreciation of his valuable while it would benefit a large aum services which have gone far to ber of people. It has been suggest lighten the burden which fell on the ed to us that a beginning might be Committee. We also desire to re- made with three such courts on the cord our appreciation-of the services south end of arcá P at King's Park, of our stenographer, Miss, Fergu which is at present allotted but son, unused except as a public football We have the honour to be, Sir, ground, and with another 3 courts Your Excellency's most obedient on some of the ground recommend- servants, ed for uso na playing felds in the neighbourhood of Prince Edward Road. A memorandum on this sub- ject by Mr. E. Cock forms appendix VIIL this report.

We recommend that Government should endeavour to give effect to this proposal and establish public hardtennis courts on these lines. It is suggested that the courts might be looked after by that branch of the Public Works De- partment, which at present looks after the public bathing beaches end that the open tennis should coincide with the closed season for bathing.

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W. T. Soutborn (Chairman), Harold T, Creasy. W. E, L Shenton, J. P. Braga, S. W. Te'o, E. Ralphs, t. H. D. Byron, †C. A. de Linde, Richard Hancock, E, Cook, M. K. Lo, A. el Arculli.

Hong Kong, January, 1030.

*These members have signed subject to their reservation - nexed. These members have signed subject to their reservation an- · nexed,

RESERVATION BY HON. MR. J. P. BRAGA AND MR. MAK. LO

We regret the necessity for this reservation but we are unable to sign the Report without it on ac count of its recommendations relát. ing to Caroline Hill as contained in paragraph 11 (a) and paragraph 12 of that Report, with which we are ia disagreement.

We do not agree to the sale of the Caroline Hill area, at present and for some time past allocated and extensively used as a playing, feld, 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.

Our rensons for disagreement are as follows:

(a) The carving out of Caroline Hill for building purposes would spoil the amenities of the Sookunpoo Valley how almost exclusively devoted to the purpose of playing fields the benefits of which are ex- joyed by men of the Services as well as by civilians of all nationalities. The conspicu-" ously successful Grant Tat- too, held for a period of three consecutive days in October 1999, when thousands of residents of, and visitors to, the Colony, enjoyed a magnificent spectacle staged in an ideal and unique set- ting suciently demonstrates the value of Sookunpoo Val- ley being retained and main- tained for its present pur poses without the incumbrance of buildings for residential purposes, for which more suitable sites might be found elsewhere on the Island, and preferably, at Kowloon. (b) The value and the cost of

the land should not, in our opinion. constituté e decid- ing factor in the considera- tion of the qucation as to whether or not it should be retained

λ 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, c.g. the Hong Kong Cricket Club ground, which. We under- stand, is worth about five and a half million dollars. The same might be said of the ex. tensive area within King's Park at Kowloon which, for, its'eatiro acreage, has a value- far in excess of that which may be assessed for Carolinė Hill. And yet the permanent reservation of King's Park for playing fields and as an open area- very wise mea sure indeed-has been secured by legislation. (Continued on Page 10.)

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