PARKLANDS NEWS
September 2005 Number 20
Contents President’s letter Issues on the table ... and more dead elms Welcome to Bonython Park Half baked bridges and underhand passes Annual Memorial Address How the Parklands could be sacrificed to car parking and more Enjoy a pleasant Sunday afternoon ETSA outrage on Kingston Terrace Help wanted! The Adelaide Parklands: Prelude to the purchase Consultation: ACC-style Use our new e-mail service Use of Parklands on Sundays
Adelaide Parklands Preservation Association Inc PO Box 3040 Rundle Mall Adelaide 5000 Web: www.adelaide-parklands.org President’s letter APPA President Ian Gilfillan is development and ensure that never away on a well earned break and, again would we be forced to accept as the recently elected Deputy intrusions into the Parklands like the President, I have been asked to Next Generation gym and tennis replace him for this edition. complex. At the same time, I became the Chief-of-Staff to the Environment I’ve been an APPA member for a Minister, John Hill, who had been number of years on and off and, given responsibility for the Parklands as a long-time inner city resident, and for developing the new I’ve always taken great pleasure legislation. This was the first time in knowing the Parklands are just that I had worked for the ALP but I down my street—in many ways was encouraged by its commitments they have become part of my own to the environment in general and backyard. the Parklands in particular. To avoid any perception of a conflict of Three years have passed, I am no The unique quality of Adelaide’s interest, I resigned my membership longer with the government, and a Parklands has also made them a from APPA for the duration of my draft Bill is finally out for public target over the years for rapacious ministerial employment. consultation, with parliament set to developers eager to get their debate it when it returns in hands on what they often call One of the first tasks set by the September. Copies of the Bill are ‘wasted space’. So, too, with Minister in relation to the Parklands available on government and ACC various councils and governments was to establish a working group to Web sites and I would encourage and that’s why APPA has become develop some options. The group all members to spend time looking such an important player in included representatives from the at it. As an APPA member, I safeguarding our Parklands Adelaide City Council and the believe it is not perfect but, at the against the slow and gradual Department of Environment and same time, I believe it is a dismemberment of cherished Heritage, and our own Jim Daly from significant step in the right open community spaces. APPA. direction and there is still time for further negotiation on what will be Back in 2002 the Labor Party was The Minister believed the key to one of the most important pieces returned to government after an producing protecting legislation was of legislation ever created for our eight year absence. Part of its to gain support from the broader Parklands. election commitment was to community, the ACC and APPA. This introduce new legislation to meant there would be some protect the Parklands from future compromises to be borne by all. Kym Winter-Dewhirst
ISSUES ON THE TABLE ... and more dead elms Parklands Trust legislation Besides the dead elms in Kingston In response to landscape architect Gardens (front page photo), there are Ian Barwick’s recent criticisms, the World Heritage listing many others throughout the Adelaide City Council will re-assess Land grab at Victoria Park Parklands—at least another 8 in this its watering policies. Racecourse location shown below. Kyle Penick made some enquiries Biodiversity survey about tree maintenance in April this year. It is interesting to note from his Heritage listing of 1889 Arbor Day research that the ACC has 7 people plantings for the maintenance of approximately 200 000 trees, while the City of Adelaide Bowling Club’s activities Melbourne employs about 20 people Hurtle Square redevelopment for approximately 50 000 trees, and spends $2.5m a year on just tree Britannia intersection care. By comparison, ACC spends approximately $500 000 a year. Kyle General and Park Lands PAR concluded that Adelaide’s tree maintenance program is severely Dying elms underfunded. SACA car park push Gunta Groves Bakewell Bridge
Front page: Dead elms in Kingston Dead elms in Pityarrilla (Park 19) along Gardens, February 2005. the southern edge of Glen Osmond Road, Photo by Gunta Groves February 2005. Photo by Gunta Groves
Parklands News September 2005 Page 2 WELCOME TO BONYTHON PARK The place of circuses
Bonython Park on 3 July 2005 during site works after the Cirque du Soleil occupation. Photo taken by Gunta Groves
Bonython Park and circuses muddy ground. It is now six weeks of appeared to know whether the ACC are almost synonymous. This Parklands’ alienation after the Cirque was involved in the work of laying the year, Cirque du Soleil also used du Soleil moved out. I would expect bitumen or how much it was costing. this area of Parklands instead that the area could not be returned to The Lord Mayor expressed the view normal use for some months yet. that perhaps, next time, Cirque du of the more usual Ellis Park Soleil should use the showgrounds location. The area involved is 15 000 square instead of the Parklands. metres according to the ACC. In a Usually, circus tenures are low discussion on 20 April during one of At the very end of the meeting on impact, benign occupancies that the infrequent meetings of the ACC 20 April, the Committee was told by a leave no trace when they are gone. Adelaide Park Lands Committee, member of the administration that the Cirque du Soleil, however, is different. several Councillors and the Lord ACC had not been involved in laying Someone decided that for this Mayor expressed surprise and the bitumen or would be involved in company’s convenience the whole concern that such a coverage of the remediation afterwards. area should go under asphalt. As a Parklands had been allowed. The sop to those concerned about the use ACC’s General Manager informed the Overall, this was an amazing of bitumen and, especially, hard meeting that a geo-textile fabric (the performance by the Committee and paving in the Parklands, a system of pile on the right in the photo above) the ACC administration. No-one knew laying down matting with the bitumen had been laid on the ground first, a how the situation came about (or on top was devised and obviously stone fill placed on top of that, wasn’t telling), no-one knew how approved at some stage by the followed by a 4.5cm layer of bitumen. much it was going to cost, no-one Adelaide City Council. The idea was This was all going to be peeled back had any idea how long the to promote the concept as and the area remediated in four remediation would take (the four- environmentally friendly and weeks before the next event. week statement was self-evidently impermanent in that the hard surface wrong), and no definite action was could be removed after the event and The Councillors and Lord Mayor were taken to ensure that the situation is the area returned to grass very particularly concerned that they had not repeated. What a circus! quickly—in fact, within four weeks, it no knowledge of this as none of the was said. detail had been made available to them. To add to this ‘circus’, no-one Gunta Groves As I write (beginning of August), the area is still fenced off and the sparse small blades of grass are starting to Next newsletter deadline: 31 October 2005 peep through a huge expanse of
Parklands News September 2005 Page 3 Half baked bridges and underhand passes
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Parklands News September 2005 Page 5 How the Parklands could be sacrificed to car parking and more
On 25 July 2005 the Adelaide b. An increased area to the That the Chief Executive Officer City Council (ACC) meeting use of car parking including presents the Council at the was asked by Cr Taylor to the north western oval. earliest opportunity a report addressing a proposal by the approve an outrageous c. Whether the parking is to be used for other than sporting South Australian Cricket proposal by the South functions held at the oval, ie a Association to manage the areas Australian Cricket Association lease of entertainment areas of parklands adjacent Adelaide (SACA) to turn Tardanya for private functions including Oval, generally referred to as ‘the Womma (Park 26), located just the temporary tent. Northern Car Park’. Given that north of the Adelaide Oval, into 3. Whether the Council has legal this area has had long-term use a car park, possibly with and indeed moral right to as an ancillary car park to lighting and advertising. It abrogate its responsibiity for facilitate events held at the would be managed by SACA looking after the Park Lands and Adelaide Oval, the report should include: with all income going to SACA. sub-lease an area for parking use. 4. What advantages would such ¥ an assessment of the impact The ACC would receive lease bring to the ratepayers of of proposed improvements to $100 000 a year for this favour. the City of Adelaide and indeed the landscaping of the area the residents of Adelaide. ¥ an assessment of how the The timing of Cr Taylor’s motion may 5. Would this set a precedent proposal would enhance the or may not have been significant in allowing other organisations, such management of the area as a that, at the time, Cr Clearihan and Cr as the Royal Show Society at temporary parking facility for Brine were on leave. Wayville, the South Australian events held at the Adelaide Jockey Club etc, to apply for Oval Kelly Henderson was given leave to similar rights to take over parking ¥ what alternative tenure make a deputation to the meeting to in their related Park Land areas. arrangements would need to enlighten Councillors about the area be put in place to facilitate this being Parklands and to urge caution. Full marks to Cr Magasdi and like- management change eg a She made the point that the ACC minded colleagues for this one. They temporary or long-term lease itself had been successful in the case join a long and illustrious list of to SACA or outsourcing to of Adelaide CC v Lester & Park Fast protectors of the Parklands SACA for their control of (Aust) Pty Ltd (Damian Lester had commencing with our Colonisation ancillary parking and used Parklands to create a car park). Commissioners, Gilles (Colonial associated care for the said Cr Magasdi moved a commendable Treasurer), Fisher (Resident area alternative motion as an amendment Commissioner and Adelaide’s first ¥ any other matters relevant to to the original motion put by Cr Taylor. Mayor), Gawler (Governor and the proposal such as impact This amendment, provided here in Resident Commissioner) and Gouger on casual staff, ingress/egress full, was approved and signalled a (Colonial Secretary). facilities, lighting etc. major re-assessment by the ACC of SACA’s proposal. There is no mention of the legal Two weeks is a long time implications, no mention of residents, That the CEO and the no mention of setting precedents— Administration prepare and in local government ... and no marks to SACA or some ACC provide a report to be brought Councillors who, apparently, have back to Council on: Just two weeks later, disappointment been negotiating this ‘car park’ since 1. A local area consultation to be followed. On 8 August Cr Angove December 2004. undertaken how ratepayers feel moved to revoke this decision by about leasing the northern Park Council and proposed a new motion. We all need to monitor developments Land in front of the Cathedral, on In a surprise turn-around, Council on this closely and make our opinions Pennington Terrace, to the SA known. We need PARKLANDS, not Cricket Association. voted in favour of the new motion, car PARKING! 2. The implications of such lease which is printed below so that you in regard to: can come to your own conclusions a. Increased frequency of about the direction that Council usage of the car park. intends to take. Gunta Groves
Parklands News September 2005 Page 6 ENJOY A PLEASANT ETSA SUNDAY AFTERNOON outrage on at the Kingston Annual Memorial Address Terrace The Adelaide City Council meeting on 8 August included a discussion This year we have invited importance of the Parklands to the about the siting of an ETSA Utilities Dr Ken Marriott, Managing people of Adelaide. transformer in the northern Director and Principal of HM Parklands. Leisure to deliver the Annual You will recall that we held our Memorial Address on Sunday Centenary Celebrations in this venue Cr Clearihan’s concern about the 30 October, 3.00pm to 5.00pm, and it was a great occasion for transformer, which suddenly people to meet and share our Botanic Gardens Lecture appeared recently opposite interest in the preservation of the Theatre, Goodman Building, residences on Kingston Terrace, is Adelaide Parklands. This year we will commendable. We hope the Hackney Road. also have the opportunity to get an Councillor’s question, ‘What is the update on the Park Lands Bill to possibility of having this transformer Ken is well known as a leading establish a Park Lands Authority, and moved?’, gets a ‘can-do’ response— Australian parks planner and visits some live music will add to the especially in light of the advice to Adelaide regularly in his professional occasion. Council that ETSA failed to comply capacity. He has extensive overseas with requirements to notify residents. experience in Asia, the Pacific region Light refreshments, champagne and and New Zealand. other drinks will round off what will be a pleasant Sunday afternoon. Kelly Henderson Ken will also be conducting a There is convenient parking close by. Professional Seminar on Parklands on the management and the use of See the pamphlet in this issue for open space, jointly sponsored by more details and where and how to Next newsletter copy APPA, Adelaide City Council and the book. Parks and Leisure Association. deadline: If you would like any further details This annual occasion gives exposure and publicity information, please to the work of the Adelaide Parklands phone me on 8267 4192. 31 October 2005 Preservation Association Inc and heightens the awareness of the Jim Daly
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Parklands News September 2005 Page 7 The Adelaide Parklands Prelude to the purchase
The survival today of round about the cities ... The vnreasonable couetousnes of a fewe’ thousands of acres of freely pasture lands ... shall reach from was stated to be ‘to the vtter accessible open space in the the wall of the city outward a vndoyng of your Ilande’, and City of Adelaide is a remarkable thousand cubits all round ... the ‘peculiare to ... Englishe men alone’: city being in the middle7 testimony to the philosophical Forsooth ... your shepe, that were ideals exemplified in the But the fields of common land wont to be so myke and tame ... founding of this ‘Paradise of belonging to their cities may not be become so greate Dissent’1 as a radical utopia, be sold; for that is their perpetual devowerers, and so wylde, that and to the unremitting vigilance possession.8 they eate up and swallow down of successive generations of the very men them selfes. They parklands’ protectors. Sir Thomas More’s9 Utopia, first consume, destroy, and devoure printed in Latin in 1516, was hole fields, howses, and cities ... This second article explores in translated into English in 1551 and Therefore, that one covetous and 15 greater detail the cultural retranslated several times, and unsatiable comaraunte and environment in Britain which reprinted by Dibden in 180810 and by verye plague of his native contrey led to the determination to others thereafter. In some respects may compass abowte and inclose many thousand acres of establish ‘Open Space in the Adelaide’s layout bears a vague grounde to gether ... Caste out Vicinity of populous Towns, as resemblance to More’s Utopian city of Amaurote: thies pernycious abomynacyons; Public Walks and Places of ... Suffer not thies ryche men to Exercise, calculated to The cytie of Amaurote standeth bye vp all ...16 promote the Health and vpon the syde of a low hill, in Comfort of the Inhabitants’2 fashion almoste four square ... Ideas of enclosures damaging and which ultimately secured The ryuere of Anyder rysethe society and of city dwellers walking an enduring Trust with the .xxiiii. myles aboue Amaurote in the country or circuit of lands purchase3 of the fee simple4 of owte of a lytle springe ... before belonging to the city were the Adelaide Parklands. the cytie yt ys halfe a myle brode established well before an enclosure ... They haue also an other in 1618 provided for open space, yet ryuere, whiche in dede is not very somehow that right was later lost: great. But it runneth gentelley Paradise Lost and pleasauntlye ... downe a 1,266 acres of common and slope through the myddes of the waste lands were enclosed and 11 divided up amongst the owners of Since earliest times there have been citie ... land in Blackburn, but some 18 specifications for reservation of land The stretes be appoynted and set acres were to be set out and around cities, including those forth verye commodious and used ‘for the mustering and instructions published in the world’s handsome12 training of people in that part, and best-selling and most widely for the recreation of the distributed book, the Bible, with an [The Utopians] walk abroad in the Inhabitants of the said Town, and estimated 2.5 billion copies sold fields, or into the country that for the good and profit of the said since 1815, translated into 2233 belongeth to the city.13 Town and Poor thereof, as a gift languages and dialects.5 FJ Osborn Euerye cytie is diuided into foure forever ...’17 outlined the historical origins of the equall partes. In the myddes of green-belt principle6 from the But the rights of recreation seem Question: Where dideuery the quarter green there is a marketin ‘A Greener City’ go? Levitical Cities of Palestine (c 13th to have been lost by 1833, for place ... in the circuite of the citie, Century BC) to Howard’s Garden when William Fielden, MP for a little without the walles, they cities of tomorrow Blackburn was asked by the haue .iiii. hospitalles ...14 (1898). Open lands encircling Committee on Public Walks; ‘Is Levitical Cities were to be there any place to which the It is not surprising to find criticism in inalienable: children of the humbler classes More’s Utopia for Britain’s enclosure may resort for any game or of common fields, commons and The Lord said to Moses ... exercise?’ ... his answer was wastes to the profit of rich men and Command the people of Israel, ‘None whatever.’18 Answer:that they give to Itthe Levitesdisappeared ... the destruction under of husbandry, the cars in Victoria Park. cities to dwell in; and you shall displacement of population, and The impact on society of such a lack give to the Levites pasture lands increase of unemployment: ‘the of open space emerged in the town
Parklands News September 2005 Page 8 This is the second article in a series on the Adelaide Parklands and the historical basis for their creation and survival. The first article, entitled ‘An historic public walk’, appeared in the June 2005 issue of Parklands News. laws forbidding children playing in along with ‘five hundred more from inclosure of ... any open or the streets, in the complaints of elsewhere’, and ‘armed with reap- common meadow or pasture lands newspaper correspondents about the hooks, hatchets, bill-hooks and or fields ... situate and being within flying of kites, and in magistrates’ duckets they marched the seven- one mile of any city or town of five fines upon the running races on the mile-long boundary of Otmoor’, thousand inhabitants, or within one turnpike roads, which had become a destroying all the fences, mile and a half of any city or town general nuisance.19 whereupon the Riot Act was read.26 of fifteen thousand inhabitants ...35
For those who relied upon forage Although the original enclosure was However, in comparison to Adelaide’s and grazing on unenclosed lands fifteen years old, Otmoor was still in 2332 acres of Park Ground,36 the adjoining towns and villages, rebellion: ‘whenever there was a full 1840 Report of the Committee on the enclosures were very serious moon the patriots of the moor Health of Towns indicated a matters. Since simple husbandry turned out and pulled down the lamentable lack of progress in offered a defence against pauperism fences’.27 The magistrates of Oxford England: ‘Manchester has no public through the expedient of keeping declared no constabulary force of park or other grounds where the geese or a cow, it is not surprising theirs would be able to suppress population can walk and breathe fresh enclosures were bitterly resented. the Otmoor outrages and asked for air ... In this respect Manchester is soldiers, and one magistrate wrote disgracefully defective ...’37 The law locks up the man or to Lord Melbourne that ‘all the woman towns in the neighbourhood of Who steals the goose from off the Otmoor are more or less infected common Paradise of Dissent with the feelings of the most violent, But lets the greater robber loose and cannot at all be depended Who steals the Common from the It is but a short step to see that the upon’.28 goose.20 planners of South Australia who ‘let So long and so bitter was the the particular shortcomings of liberty civil war roused by an enclosure in England determine the particular Civil War which Parliament had guarantees of liberty in South sanctioned in absolute disregard Australia’38 might be minded to establish an antipodean ‘Levitical In 1801, enclosure of Otmoor, to the of the opinions or traditions or City’. north of Oxford, was opposed by ‘a circumstances of the mass of 29 Mob at each Place’, until the the people it affected. Having once sketched the outline of enclosure was ‘shipwrecked’.21 these inalienable lands, that Otmoor had been enjoyed by the Otmoor’s civil war was evident in 30 instrument of past enclosures—the inhabitants without stint from time the newspapers and law courts, British Parliament—did not effect their immemorial. According to tradition it with a ‘pamphlet war’ ensuing and destruction although Adelaide’s was a gift to the inhabitants of its ‘Otmoor Associations ... formed to Parklands had to be purchased to vicinity for a common 22 and ‘the fight for the rights of Otmoor secure them for the inhabitants. The greatest benefit was reaped by the commoners’. As late as 1833, ‘two whole of Australia may be indebted for cottagers, many of whom turned out men [were] indicted for malicious this determination to retain in large numbers of geese ... and destruction of a bridge built by order perpetuity freely accessible open thereby brought up their families in of the trustees of the Otmoor 31 space round about the city of comparative plenty’.23 Nevertheless, drainage scheme’. In that year the Adelaide. As Thomas Worsnop39 wrote it had been decided by the law that Select Committee on Public Walks of the Act for regulating the Sale of ‘no man can have any right in recommended that ‘provision of Waste Land belonging to the Crown in common ... wherein he has no Public Walks and Open Places the Australian Colonies:40 interest but only habitation: so that would much conduce to the 32 the poor, as such, had no right to the comfort, health and content’ of the It is evident this Waste Lands Act common whatever’.24 ‘middle’ or ‘humbler’ classes. was brought into existence principally by the force of Although ultimately successful, a Whilst the South Australia circumstances surrounding the later attempt to enclose Otmoor in Colonization Act was in the British action of Governor Gawler in 1814 met with ‘large Mobs, armed Parliament, another enclosure Bill 33 respect to the purchase of the with every description of offensive was pending, this time for Park Lands; and section 3 ... gives weapons’ and ‘threats of immediate Kingsclere and, subsequently, the the power of reservation of lands death’.25 The inhabitants remained 1836 Inclosure of Open and Arable 34 for these purposes, not sufficiently unreconciled to the enclosure of Fields Act was passed which provided for in the Act constituting Otmoor, and in September 1830 ‘five Provided always that nothing in South Australia a British hundred men, women and children this Act ... shall authorise the Province.41 assembled from the Otmoor towns’
Parklands News September 2005 Page 9 Continued from page 5 10 More’s Utopia, Edited with Introduction and Notes by J Churton, Collins, Oxford Postscript 1961, Introduction pp li Consultation: 11 ibid, pp 53Ð54 The preservation of Adelaide’s 12 ibid, pp 53Ð54 ACC-style Parklands was by no means 13 The Country-Belt Principle: Its accidental. In the history of their Historical Origins by FJ Osborn in Town reservation, dedication and purchase and Country Planning Volume XIII No 49 Currently, the Adelaide City Council lies the secret to their successful Spring 1945 p 15 is consulting on a series of 14 More’s Utopia, pp 67Ð69 Community Land Management Plans continuation, setting them apart from 15 ‘an insatiably greedy person’, More’s for the Parklands. The plans are well the myriad of commons and open Utopia, Edited with Introduction and prepared and presented but make spaces near towns which have long Notes by J Churton, Collins, Oxford 1961, since been enclosed and converted p 261 some alarming assumptions about for private profit. 16 ibid, pp 15Ð18 land ownership, the retention of 17 The Bleak Age, JL & Barbara existing unacceptable activities such Blackburn, Halifax, Stockport and Hammond, Pelican Books 1947, p 81 as car parking, and commercial Rochdale did not obtain parks until 18 ibid, p 81 ventures that masquerade as 42 the 1850s. Areas of Otmoor which 19 ibid, p 86 community activities. The 20 proved difficult to drain were taken Public Parks, Hazel Conway, 1996 consultation on Victoria Park was 21 The Village Labourer, JL & Barbara over by the Royal Society for the even so skewed as to present the Protection of Birds43 and in 1997 the Hammond, Guild Books 1948, p 87 22 SAJC proposal for a large RSPB began the ambitious task of ibid, p 83 23 ibid, p 85 grandstand in the middle of Victoria recreating a nationally important 24 ibid, p 88 Park as a ‘fait accompli’ and wetland on the moor, a £2 million 25 ibid, p 86 somehow the best option for project involving the purchase and 26 ibid, p 90 preserving the character of the Park! restoration of 220 hectares.44 27 ibid, pp 91Ð92 28 ibid, p 92 A recent attempt by one Councillor to 29 ibid, p 92 30 move a motion to lease a large area Kelly Henderson Oxford Journal, Oxford University and City Herald, from The Village Labourer of Parklands to SACA was made pp 88Ð91 without any consultation 31
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Use of Parklands on Sundays This is an interesting historical snippet found by Kyle Penick in the papers of the ACC Policy—Parkland Sub-Committee 1945–1972 (#50/101:01 Part 1 4092/0039).
Arising from what was apparently an organised Sunday sport on the Park the ground shall not be used on objectionable and unauthorised use of Lands. Sundays for any competitive match or the parklands for organised sport, a (5) That whereas Sunday games are game, whether confined to members of deputation from the Council of played only by a small minority of lessees the Club to which the permit is issued Churches waited upon the Lord of sporting grounds, the increase in the or not. No Club to or for whose benefit Mayor in August, 1939, in which the number of games played, and the a permit is issued shall play on or use Council was asked to take action to attendant organisation and advertising is on Sunday any ground (other than the prevent the playing of organised sport extremely undesirable.’ particular ground allotted to it) for any on the parklands on Sunday, purpose whatsoever.’ principally on the following grounds: As a result of this deputation the Council appointed a special Committee which ‘Clause 7(a) No Club, or its members, ‘(1) That the organised games now recommended to Council the current or any other person or persons holding being played constitute a breach of policy which is set out in the conditions a permit shall advertise any games the fourth commandment. contained in the Permits issued to being played or to be played on a (2) That children find the attraction of sporting bodies, namely: Sunday on the ground allotted for the watching organised sport greater than use of such Club and its members, or the attraction of Sunday Schools. ‘Clause 6(a) The ground for play, and for any other person or persons, and in the (3) That the quietude of Sunday is which the permit is issued, shall not be event of any Club or its members or disturbed for many people by the used at any time on Sundays except for person or persons aforesaid so doing noise and bustle attendant on the sole and exclusive purpose of practice the permit shall be deemed to be organised sports. by the members only of the Club to which automatically cancelled.’ (4) That the sentiment of a great the permit is issued. In particular, but number of people is definitely against without derogating from the foregoing, Editor: So there!
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