PUBLIC OPINION.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 6964, 18 January 1918, Page 2

PUBLIC OPINION.

TJiowie Filthy Baths.

(To the Editor.) : Sir,—As a recent enthusiastic visitor to this pretty little fceaport town of Tauranga, will you allow ojo through the medium of your column?, to express au opinion on the filthy condition in which I found tbe local bath-house. Tauranga advertisea amongst its many attractions its bathlog facilities, bub when visitors aniva here, they iUd t Jiey cannot possibly we tho bathing, shed provided. It is a biot on an otherwise buautifui seaside resort. Surely the. inhabitant . of Tauranga can find time and energy to remove it, so that visitors will not iv future depart as disappointed as I shall do. I have visited almost e?ery seaport town in New Zealand, but I have never yet encountered bathingsheds in such a deplorable eonditiou. I have heard that there is a movement afloat to improve matters, and I trust there will be no cessation of effort to carry-this improvement to a successful issue. On my next visit T hope to find better conditions prevailing. lam *tc. ■ X- M. (JATTAN.VCH, Taurauga, January 17th, ID I a.

M'sirs Mountfort and Baker, Ltd, have ju3t landed a shipment of prime £outbera table potatoes, which they are selling at 7s per cwt. thfi Germans are employing I'altan prisonera upon defensive works ia Flanders imder harsh cyuditious within artillery range.