Melb. Botanic Garden
13/1/70
Sir
I have the honor to inform you that your letter of the 4th inst. was submitted yesterday to a meeting of the Trustees of the Royal Park when the following resolution was passed
"That the application for extension of the ground of the Brunswick Cricket Club, made by the Brunswick Borough Council, be not approved, in as much as the Club have already the permissive occupation of an area of 6 acres for the purposes of Cricket and other sports, and that the Trustees have no intention of interfering with the present privileges of the Club as long as the fences and ground are kept in proper order and the rules of the Park are duly observed."
I am desired by my colleagues to add, that they would not deem it in conformity with the duties of their trust were they to recognize the the1 principle of alienating portions of the Park for special purposes, and were they to establish thereby precedents under which gradually portions after portions of the Park would be no longer accessible to the general public.
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your obedient
(signed) Ferd von Mueller
Hon. Sec. Trustees Royal Park
The Townclerk of Brunswick
Word repeated.
Please cite as “FVM-70-01-13b,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on