FREE USE OF BATHS BY CHILDREN
♦ COUNCIL CONCERNED AT LOSS OF REVENUE Last year about 10.890 school children used the Tepid Baths under the City Council’s arrangement with the Canterbury Education Board for free use of the baths by children learning to swim. As before 1938 children paid 6d each for three months’ use of the baths this resulted in a loss to the council last year of about £272. This was reported to the Christchurch City Council last evening by the baths committee, which pointed out that many of these children came from beyond the city area. The committee had left it to Cr. J. J. Hurley to raise the question of free admission to school children to the baths with the Education Board. The committee also reported that as the principal training centre for overseas soldiers would shortly be at Trentham, it had decided that men of the Armed Forces be charged halfrates, 3d a swim, instead of having free use of the baths as at present.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23447, 30 September 1941, Page 8
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