§ MR. MOON (St. Pancras, N.)I beg to ask the First Commissioner of Works whether he is aware that Regent's Park and Primrose Hill are closed to players in football matches on the last day of February in every year, while the open spaces under the control of the London County Council are available to such players up to 31st March; and whether he can cause the football period in the first-named open spaces to be extended to 31st March.
§ THE FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS (Mr. AKERS DOUGLAS,) Kent, St. Augustine'sThe ground on which football is played at Regent's Park and Primrose Hill is very stiff clay, and it becomes much cut up and the grass destroyed. The grass needs some time for restoration, and I am not prepared, therefore, to extend the football season in these Parks. More particularly as to Primrose Hill, I have to keep in view the fitness of the same ground for cricket.