WELLINGTON.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2112, 11 February 1908, Page 4

WELLINGTON.

(Special to Times.) Dr. Newman, who is a keen patron of amateur sports, has drawn attention to the unsuitability of the basin reserve for athletic sports. Ho say 3 the track is very uneven, and it is almost impossible for athletes to get near standard times on it. Tie is convinced that had Sharpe been running on a good track last meeting, he would have registered something very close!}’ approaching standard time in the three-mile champion ship. The course for the 100 yards championship) is the only one which can be called good. He urges the local centre to get a better ground for its sports meetings. There' seems a fair prospect that AJexandra barracks, at Alt. Cook, Wellington, will, within the next year or two', be changed into a museum. '‘Alt. Cook,” which is altogether a misnomer, is a bit ot rising ground, overlooking the Newtown end of the city of -Wellington, and the main objection to it as a museum site lies in the fact that it ris rather out of the reach of visitors and students. The present building on the site was designed for a gaol, hut Air. Scddon turned it into a barracks for the Permanent Artillery. The artillerymen have occupied it now. for three years, but, as a local paper puts it, the livo soldier may soon have to give way to the dead lion. The 'Public Works Department is to report whether the building can bo altered to make it fit for a colonial museum.