Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 10. 1966.
Sports centre for CU soon
Sports centre for CU soon
NZSPA Reporter
Christchurch, — A £250,000 sports centre for the University of Canterbury is being planned for a site adjoining the new Student Union at Ilam.
Described as a complex of facilities for every kind of indoor sport, the centre will have features unmatched in New Zealand, according to a statement from the new gymnasium planning committee.
Accommodation requirements include:
- • A sports hall about 120 feet by 80 feet (with gallery), which will provide a full basketball court or two practice courts; four badminton courts; three volley-ball courts; perhaps indoor tennis; and other games.
- • A large gymnasium, about 90ft by 50ft, for formal gymnastics, fitness classes, training programmes, with sufficient flexibility for interchange of some activities with the sports hall.
- • Speciality rooms for weight-lifting, judo, and creative dance.
- • Six squash rackets courts.
- • A theatre for lectures, films and meetings.
- • A heated and covered swimming pool about 25yds by 15yds. for recreational rather than competitive swimming with a diving pool attached.
- • Changing rooms, shower rooms, locker rooms and similar facilities.
The students' association has been raising funds for the project. It will qualify for a government subsidy, but more finance will be required, said Mr. Anderson.