As a part of Crown land, the surface is open to public, and many schools in the area also use the ground for sports events.
Once given a Crown land, one had the right to keep it 'for life'.
At that time, a major part of the park's area was classified as crown land.
In 1967 it was declared that the crown land would be the site for a public park.
In other cases, the government declared an area to be crown land, and sold it to the company.
In the same year, he became the commissioner of crown lands.
Price was commissioner of crown lands from 1848 to 1851.
In 1830 he opposed attempts to sell large areas of crown land.
He was commissioner of crown lands from 1857 to 1872.
He was rewarded for taking such a position with large grants of crown land.
