NEW SWIMMING BATH

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22372, 8 April 1938, Page 11

NEW SWIMMING BATH

PROPOSAL FOR SCHOOL AT KAIAPOI

Education Department has ad[s?®.,. Kaiapoi School Committee toe Minister for Education is pre-

pared to give favourable consideration to making a grant of half the cost of materials for the construction of a swimming bath at the Kaiapoi School. A condition is that it be possible to arrange with the Labour Department for the payment of the necessary labour out of the employment promotion funds, the special grant to be limited to £2CO.

The question was considered at a special meeting of the committee on Wednesday evening when the chairman (.Mr J. W. McDougall) presided. The

chairman reported that arrangements had been made with the Minister for Labour for a grant for the necessary labour.

The committee decided to proceed with the proposal through the Canterbury Education Board and obtain estimates of the cost of materials and labour for a swimming bath 50 feet long and 20 feet wide, with a six feet iron fence in the north-west end of the school grounds. The chairman was authorised to interview the Education Department and

the Labour Department in Wellington next week and to submit estimates of the cost of the work. A gift of £5 to the school bath fund was received from Mr H. O. Hills.

Arrested on Wednesday night and charged with deserting the ship Akaroa at Wellington on March 1, Frederick Hilton, aged 27, a pantryhand, appeared before Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland yesterday and was remanded for a —Press Association.