SUMNER BATHING POOL.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19725, 16 September 1929, Page 11

SUMNER BATHING POOL.

TO TUB EDITOH Of THB PRBSS Sir, —I notice Mr Nicholson contends that the fall of rock at Sumner was some thirty yards away from the edge of the bath. This is interesting, because it indicates that the bath would be, after all, a very smali affair. Mr Nicholson apparently thinks that because the fall of. rock did not actually- touch any spot which would be occupied by it, there would be no danger, but I should like to ask about the thousands of people whom he claims he is going to accommodate in the space adjacent to the bath, about the parking place for 400 motor-cars, and about the children who would be playing near. On looking at the very large lumps of stone, some of them running into many tons in weight, it is quite clear that, had a car been passing the spot at the time, all the occupants would have been killed. If his had happened, there is no doubt that a big agitation would at once have started for the removal of the road to a position alongside the tramway** causeway. Opponents of the pool have repeatedly pointed out that ultimately this is what will happen, and any money spent on the swimming pool will be wasted when a road has to be put through.—Yours, etc., COMMONSENSE.