"DISMAL SHEDS"

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 127, 26 November 1923, Page 8

"DISMAL SHEDS"

LYAL.L BAY DRESSING ROOMS.

Lyall Bay bathers, so an enthusiast told a "Post"' reporter to-day, are still hoping that the City Council will shortly come to a decision to do something to better dressing room facilities at the Bay. "At present," continued this enthusiast, "the shelters are nothing better than dismal sheds. As there are no windows, to the north no sunshine ever enters, in the afternoon at any rate,, and the floors get wet and sloppy, aad stay wet and sloppy; Sand is everywhere clothes won't stay put when piled four deep on the nails and hooks round the walls, but if you put them.on the seats to ,. eusure that they will not fall to the floor, then someone straightway stands on that seat—and on your clothes to get clear of the sloppy sand on the floor, but as far as I am concerned it is all one to me. ' I don't use the sheds." Asked what shelter he did use, the bather answered that up till yesterday he had found the sandhills well along tile Bay a good deal more pleaeant, quite a lot drier and healthier, and his clothe 3 rather safer there from the dressing shed sneak thief, but he had now been warned that dressing Up on the- sandhills would no longer be permitted. He was anxious to learn whether a bylaw had been brouaht down to prohibit'dressing on the hills a little back from the beach, and whether that bylaw, if there should be one, had regard to the full length of the beach front since the practice hadbeen almost officially recognised by long usajre. Inquiries were made by the reporter upon the points raised and he was informed that the questions ofbeaches and bathing shelters would probably be referred to at an early meeting of the council. It was generally recognised, said the councillor approached, that dressing room facilities and the protection of bathers' belongings were not all that might, be desired, but there again the question was one of finance.