4 J. H. MAIDEN. 



In addition to the areas referred to within the foregoing, 

 there is the Sydney Cricket Ground, an area of twelve 

 acres upon which the sum of over £20,000 has in a period of 

 twenty years been expended in improvements. These 

 improvements consist of an oval or enclosure suitable for 

 contests in the games of cricket, football, baseball, lawn 

 tennis, etc., and pavilions and other buildings for the 

 accommodation of spectators. This ground is under the 

 control of honorary trustees, of whom two, the President 

 of the New South Wales Cricket Association, and the 

 Under Secretary of the Department of Lands are ex officio 

 trustees. 



In the surrounding suburban areas, parks and recreation 

 grounds have also been established, and placed under the 

 control of either the local or Municipal Council or individual 

 trustees as may be deemed fit by His Excellency the 

 Governor with the advice of the Executive Council, on the 

 recommendation of the Secretary for Lands. 



There are also on the suburban boundaries of Sydney 

 two parks which are more national than local in their 

 character and purpose. These are the National Park of 

 about 36,000 acres at Port Hacking, fifteen miles south of 

 the city, and Kuring-gai Chase which are administered by 

 the Secretary for Lands under the Crown Lands Act of 1884. 



Deeds of grant have in some cases been issued, but it 

 has in later years been found more convenient to vest the 

 control by gazettal of appointment of trustees by His 

 Excellency the Governor as may from time to time be 

 necessary, and to have by-laws and regulations conferring 

 necessary power on such trustees put into force. For the 

 better regulation and control of such Trusts, the Public 

 Trusts Act of 1897 has been enacted, and is now in force. 



Dedications of public parks and recreation grounds may 

 be wholly or partly revoked, and the trusts annulled for 



