For tome two or three years now, since the conversion of the Miramar tennis courts to cabbage patches, local competitions and championships have had to be curtailed in some instances. The 1945 Christmas Tournament was a good example of the need for courts. The Tournament had to be played on the courts of different clubs, thus requiring an excessive amount of organisation, and causing inconvenience to the public and players alike. Inter-club competitions this year required a complicated set-up in arranging for courts on which to play.

With the courts at Miramar there was the trouble that they were too far from the greater part of the city. The courts at Central Park will be more or less within the city itself and will thus be more convenient for tennis enthusiasts living in the outer-lying suburbs of Karori, Northland and Wadestown.

The institution of a central area where inter-club competitions and where championship and inter-provincial matches may be held will overcome these difficulties.

Davis Cup, Pacific Zone

With the construction of these courts it should be possible to give the general public of Wellington and the neighbouring provinces a chance to see the Pacific Zone Davis Cup matches on the Central Park courts. Wellington being the capital of New Zealand, tennis courts of the proposed Central Park calibre would be the logical choice.

The Scheme

The courts are situated on the site of the former Military Camp at Central Park. The area provides for 21 courts, of which it is intended that 15 shall be grass and 6 hard.

'The estimated cost was first given as £10,000, but this has since been revised and is now put at £20,000. This amount is needed not only for the construction of the courts but for the purchase of the land. The courts will be the property of the Wellington Lawn Tennis Association and not the City Council.

Club Levies

To raise this sum each of the affiliated clubs in Wellington has been asked to raise the sum of £1 per head of, its membership over a period of two years. The VUC Tennis Club has promised 10/- per head, but would like to raise the sum asked for if possible. This means that our Tennis Club with a membership of approximately 60, will have to raise £30, and if possible the whole £60. We have at the moment handed in £20, being the profits of raffles which were held some little time ago.

Queen Carnival

The scheme is as follows: the various affiliated clubs of Wellington, including those comprising the Catholic Sub-Association and Wellington, Lawn Tennis League, have been divided into four main groups for the purpose of electing a Royal Family and raising money. They are Northern, Southern. Eastern and Western groups. The VUC Tennis Club' is in the Western group, together with the two Karori clubs, Wadestown, Seaview, Wellington, Education, St. Peter's, Northland, St. Joseph's and Public Service.

The VUC Tennis Club's Part

The VUC Tennis Club has been asked to participate to their fullest possible extent in efforts to raise money. It is realised by the other members of the Western group that so far as actually raising money is concerned, VUC Tennis Club can do little. We can, however, do one thing which is Just as important as the above aspect, and that is by giving this scheme all the publicity that it is possible for us to accomplish.