SUMNER BATHING POOL.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19675, 19 July 1929, Page 16

SUMNER BATHING POOL.

.TO THE EDITOR OP THE PRESS. £i r> —Might I suggest that the opposition of a section of Eastern Sumner to a centrally situated swimming pool is premature, indeed "much ado about nothing." The Vesting Bill being promoted simply conserves to the general public (residents and visitors alike) the right it already has to use the pool or subsequent improvement for bathing purposes, plus giving the Council control. In the meantime, I suggest it would be futile for the Mayor to address citizens on what may never eventuate. Should the Bill become law, it will be incumbent upon the present or future Councils to decide whether to take action or indefinitely postpone consideration of improvements. But surely the existing public right of use of this area for bathing must be maintained. Opponents need to take into account that the borough includes populous and expanding Kedcliffs, also, that whilst Sumner is indulging in unseemly dissension, New Brighton is straining every nerve to overcome natural disadvantages and attract visitors. I will refrain from commenting on the points raised during the recent discussions on the pool. It is, however, cle*r that expert advice on all the issues raised is obtainable from competent sources when required, and I feel assured that nothing detrimental to the borough or the health of its residents will be done by the Council as at present constituted.—Yours, etc., J. S. YOUNG. Sumner, July 18th. TO THE EDITOR OF THE PEE3S Sir,—"Sister" becomes sympathetic, sarcastic, and envious at one breath. She, also, could have been "clearly in the know" had she so desired; but her party has been so busy decrying Sumner and the Mayor that they have had no time to get down to actual facts. Their slogan seems to be 'falling rocks, cutting draughts, polluted wnter"; cliffs that have done no harm for over fifty years, a sheltered recess that defies draughts, and water that is, obviously, beyond pollution. The scare about "pockets being tapped" is piffle also. "Spero Meliora ' has allied himself with the same party. His remark that the pool will be "stagnant as soon as the outlet is closed" is childish. All outlets to baths have to be closed. Besides, how long does it take for salt

water to hecome staenant? As an old cyclist let me add that the pool is not on the hreezv corner. Then with regard +o his remarks concerning: Mr Tnit. many of us are lust Dnt'entK- waiting to seethe pf*ert of the "hurden drooned hv those (Vnncfllors who of State" reminds me that the ran. fain, a rerv ci"-!* man Mel not ahandon "the irrc"V" hrrt hi* ship in cn'te of the storm. —To"t= etc:. CHEERIO. Sumner, July 19th, 1929.