POOL AT MARUIA HOT SPRINGS
CONSTRUCTION DELAY DEPLORED The Ministry of Works will be asked by the Canterbury Progress League to let a con‘ract for the b n'ding of a thermal swimming pool at Maruia in t«me fc.r work to begin next spring. This was decided at a meeting of the league’s execu'ive last evening, after advice was received from the Tourist and Publicity Department that tenders submitted for the work had been considered to be in excess of the estimated cost, and that all had been rejected. The letter said the Ch-istehurch office of the Ministry of Works was arranging to call fresh tenders. “I think it is to be deolorcd that the department has not accepted «ny tender because it will be another ' year be ore anything can now be I done." said the secretary of the league 1 (Mr T. M. Charters). Work could I be carried out only in the spring I and summer. | Mr H. E. Radley sought members’ lopininns on whether the public w u d j use the pool if it was built. "1 know I the pools at Hanmer Spr ngs re j used but would th c one?” he ask n d It was also decided to forward 8 I copy of the league’s letter to the Ministrv of Works to a meeting "f the Sou‘h Island Local Bodies’ Association. and to seek the association’® support.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27912, 8 March 1956, Page 12
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