TE ARO BATHS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 120, 14 February 1935, Page 11

TE ARO BATHS

New Site Suggested FREE OF FLOATING REFUSE A resident in lite neighbourhood of Te Aro baths, who has taken a great interest iu the controversy over the improvement and extension of these baths, offers a new view. “Whatever is done to the baths in their present site will be more or less unsatisfactory,” he said, “for the simple"reason that they are so placed on the-foreshore of the harbour as to receive all the flotsam and garbage from the shipping. The prevailing north-westerly winds carry ail floating matter toward Clyde Quay, and no matter whether the baths are tilled through grated inlets or through palisaded fences this rubbish will drive in to that corner of the harbour. You can see it thick upon the surface after every northerly blow. “I would suggest that, instead of spending a lot of money on the extension of Te Aro baths, a report be obtained from experts on the possibilities of that little bend opposite the Orient Hotel as a bath site. In my walks abroad I have noticed that the waler is always clear and the beach clean at that point, as it is too far to the east ward to receive the floating refuse from Lambton Harbour Here the road is broad; the bath would be opposite a tramway terminus and in the sunniest part of the foreshore ”