TEPID BATHS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 135, 5 December 1933, Page 8

TEPID BATHS

(To the Editor.) Sir,—On Saturday afternoon aloiis? with several others I attended, the Maranui Swimming and Life-saving Club's opening ceremony which in the absence of the Mayor was performed by Councillor Burns. As chairman of the benches and baths committee he gave us quite a lot of useful information, but I wa« very disappointed to hear no mention of tepid baths. We all know-that, it is only n mutter of a very short time before Te Avo Baths will bo done away with. What then are we to expect?' Mention was made of baths at Evans Bay, but that'will be ikclobs for : city residents. Surely it is time that mi agitation was started for municipal salt water tepid baths. It scorns ridiculous to me that the capital city of the "■Dominion should be without an asset of. this description. I feel sure that' should up-to-date tepid ' baths- bo erected they would bo a payable proposition to the city. I understand the i .swimming season in Wellington starts from October 1, so what uhanco have citizens : to learn to swim when a club like Maranui, with its hardy swimmers, cannot open its . season before December? . I know that , several of their swimmers had their first swim on* Saturday nfternoon. How docs : this compare with Dimedin, which staged a swimming carnival in September; Auckland; and Christehurch have both had Carnivals. "_ ' v. ; ~.-. Another point 1 would like to mention . is that in Wellington we have (including the college ones) only five swimming baths, while in Chn'stchnrch, with a much smaller population, they have twenty-two.—l am, elCr' "■■■' . OLD TIMER, December i.