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and other minor areas. The Municipal Council 
are invested with all the powers given by the Pub- 
lic Parks Act for the control of these areas. 
In addition to the areas referred to within the 
foregoing there is the Sydney Cricket Ground, an 
area of 12 acres upon which the sum of $500,000 
has in a period of 20 years been expended in im- 
provements. These improvements consist of an 
oval or enclosure suitable for contests in the game 
of Cricket, P'octball, Baseball, and Lawn Tennis, 
and other athletics — and Pavilions and other build- 
ings for the accommodation of spectators. This 
ground is under the control of the Honorary 
Trustees, of whom two, the President of the N. S. 
W. Cricket Association, and the Under Secretary 
of the N. S. W. 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 
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 arc 
the National Park of about 36,000 acres at Port 
Hacking 15 miles South of the City, and Kuringgai 
Chase containing an area of about 35.3CO acres 
10 miles to the North-west, and including some of 
the inlets of the Hawkesbury River. These areas 
are under the control of Honorary Trustees, the 
National Park being administered by the Chief 
Secretary (by special arrangement) under the 
Public Parks Act, and the Kuringgai Chase being 
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 powers 
on such Trustees put into force. P'or the better reg- 
ulation 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 partially revoked and 
the Trusts annulled for any of the reasons stated 
in Section 105 of the Crown Lands Act of 1884, 
and the lands thereupon become vested in Her 
Majesty the Qaeen, to be dealt with as His Excel- 
lency the Governor with the advice of the Executive 
Council may think fit. 
By Section 104 of the Crown Lands Act of 
1884 a proposed dedication ol Crown Lands for 
Public Parks must remain before Parliament for 
one month without disallowance before it can be 
gazetted, and a similar provision exisis as regards 
a proposed revocation of any such dedication 
under Section. 105 of the same Act. 
The Parks of the City of Sydney, except 
Rusheutter Bay Park (which was partly resumed 
and partly reclaimed from Rusheutter Bay) are 
areas which have been held in the hands ©f the 
Government for such purposes, but in any case 
where the necessity for a Park arises, private 
lands may be acquired for the purpose under the 
“Lands for Public Purposes Acquisition Act’’ of 
1880 and the Public Works Act of 1888. d hc 
condition precedent in this is, that the Parliament 
of New South Wales shall have appropriated funds 
to acquire such lands, and llis Excellency the 
Governor with the advice of the Executive Council 
may then issue a proclamation resuming the 
required land. Upon issue of that proclamation 
the land becomes vested in some Minister or 
Officer as Constructing Authority on behalf of Her 
Majesty, and the former owner’s interests arc 
converted into a claim for compensation, which is 
paid upon a satisfactory proof of title being afforded 
to the Government, after appraisement if necessary. 
A sum of money for tlie maintenance and im- 
provement of Public Parks is voted annually by 
Parliament, and then distributed in the form of 
subsidies by the Secretary for Lands. In some 
cases annual amounts are voted specially for 
maintenance of the Parks out of State funds; Hyde, 
Phillip and Cook Parks are maintained in this way, 
and also the National Park; but, in the latter case, 
the Trustees have power to derive revenues ly 
leases for coal mining and other purposes. In the 
case of suburban and country parks, it is held that 
there should also be local contributions for their 
maintenance. 
In addition to the parks and recreation grounds 
more permanently established by proclamation or 
dedication, there are also areas in more sparsely 
settled localities, temporarily reserved, and placed 
.under temporary trustees under the Public Trusts 
Act, Section i. These are cases where the condi- 
tions may be likely to change, and the areas be 
required for other purposes; or where it may be 
found that other areas will be more suitable. 
It will be understood, from the foregoing, that, 
although the Government may, except in a few 
special cases, delegate the management to trustees, 
yet there is a supreme control still retained; and 
which may be exercised to the extent of annulling 
the Trust and placing the land again under the 
tlirect control of the Government if deemed ex- 
pedient in the public interest. 
