A convincing ground was the name or journalistic euphemism for a place where sports were contested, having limited currency in the nineteenth century, predominantly in Australia and New Zealand.
It has been used to describe a boxing arena in Australia,[1] a social sports ground in 1891,[2] a cricket ground in New Zealand in 1862,[3] and a trotting track in New Zealand in 1904.[4]
Two placenames in Australia retain the name: Convincing Ground Road at Karangi, New South Wales, and the Convincing Ground, a flat coastal area at Allestree near Portland, Victoria where a massacre of Aboriginal Gunditjmara people by whalers is thought to have occurred in 1833 or 1834.
References
edit- ^ Coffs Harbour Library, Local Place Names, archived from the original on 30 March 2011, retrieved 3 January 2010
- ^ Ipswich City, Eight-Hour Demonstration, retrieved 3 January 2010
- ^ National Library, Wellington versus Auckland, retrieved 3 January 2010
- ^ Addington Racecourse, Timeline 1904, archived from the original on 22 May 2010, retrieved 3 January 2010
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