DescriptionAcceptance of Lease of land for Cricket Pitch at Hagley Park, Christchurch - 1856 (16311476029).jpg
On March 5 1856, Crosbie Ward, an elected member of the Canterbury Provincial Council and member of Christchurch Cricket Club, accepted the offer of a lease of land within Hagley Park to be used as a cricket pitch. A request was made in November 1855 to the Canterbury Provincial Government and in return an offer of a lease of land was made.
Christchurch Cricket Club had in any case been based at Hagley Park since 1851 (though it wasn’t until the 1860s that their ground was located on the actual Hagley Oval site – as it stands today). This link from Papers Past records the first meeting of Christchurch Cricket Club in 1851 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
The record presented here is from the Christchurch Office of Archives New Zealand in a series of inwards correspondence received by the Provincial Secretary. The Provincial Secretary was the most important civil servant of the Provincial Government, and his office was its hub. His inwards correspondence is a large series, and it covered all possible facets of the Provincial Government's activities - immigration, education, charitable aid, health, public works (until 1864), goldfields, justice and so on. For further enquiries please email [email protected]
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