Convincing ground

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
  1. Coffs Harbour Library, Local Place Names, archived from the original on 30 March 2011, retrieved 3 January 2010
  2. Ipswich City, Eight-Hour Demonstration, retrieved 3 January 2010
  3. National Library, Wellington versus Auckland, retrieved 3 January 2010
  4. Addington Racecourse, Timeline 1904, archived from the original on 22 May 2010, retrieved 3 January 2010


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