NELSON NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 19, 23 January 1926, Page 8

NELSON NEWS

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

NELSON, 22nd January,

The Mayor, Mr. Wm. Lock, has published a statement presented by him to a committee meeting of the City Council, in which he states that it will be quite impossible to erect modern tepid baths and properly equip them for £8800, the amount of the loan authorised by the ratepayers. "The information obtained by the council as to coat of baths in other places was not altogether reliable, or at all events complete. The cost of the tepid baths in Cbristchurch was given at £9548, but it was not stated that this price did not include the cost of the heating appliances, which would amount to a fairly large sum, and these baths were constructed prior to the war. The same applies to the Murphy Street Baths, Wellington. In this case the cost was given as £9548, but it was not stated that these baths had no roof, and no heating apparatus." The Mayor goes on to state that since it was found the "sum available was inadequate to provide a standard size up-to-date baths, with living quarters, and sufficient accommodation for spectators at carnivals, etc., also a special swimming pool for children, the Engineer commenced a new set of plans, by which the width of the pool would be reduced from 50ft to. 35ft and other alterations would be made to bring the copt within the amount of the loan. The baths would compare favourably with other baths in the Dominion at a similar cost. The Engineer,. Mr. Lock says, disclaims responsibility for the bath proposals or for delay in carrying them out. It is Btated that raspberry growers who continued to cultivate during the dry spell lire now greatly benefiting since showery weather set in. The prospects of this crop were not good up to a fortnight ago. An .excellent crop is now being gathered, and the price —4%d to 5d per lb delivered at the factories—gives' a good return to growers. Constable M'Kie, of the Nelson Force, is relieving Constable Andrews at Motueka. .. .

A farewell social and presentation to Archdeacon and Mrs. Kempthorne, at which there was a large and representative gathering: was held at Brightwater on Monday evening. Eulogistic speeches were made by Canon T. J. Smith, Wakefield, and the Rev. H. L. Richards, Richmond. The chairman, on behalf of the people.of Brightwater, presented Archdeacon and Mrs. Kempthorne with an upholstered easy chair each. A presentation was also made to Miss Kempthorne, in recognition of her services in the Sunday School and other church work. Archdeacon and Mrs. Kempthorne on leaving Brightwater intend making their future home at Tahunanui.