THE HARBOUR BOARD
WILLING TO GIVE ALL HELP
Mr. R. Semple, M.P., speaking to a "Post" reporter, said that -any fears that the Harbour Board would not work in with the City Council in connection with the improvement of beach and bathing facilities, as had been suggested, were without foundation. "I attended the last -.meeting of the council and listened to the debate on the allocation of the £1.4,000," he said. "It was suggested during the discussion that there might be difficulties with the Harbour Board over the fact that most of the shelters and other works .recommended by the reserves committee would be placed on Harbour Board land. Last week I brought the matter up at a meeting of the wharves and accounts committee of the Harbour Board, and was assured, by the chairman of the board (Mr. T. R. Barrer) that no objections would be offered by the board, but, on the contrary, that every assistance would be given to facilitate the improvement of dressing shelter and other baihing facilities about the harbour foreshore."
Mr. Semple remarked that most of the present bathing shelters, and the Oriental Bay band rotunda, too, were built on Harbour Board property, and so also were the various yachting club sheds and pavilions. The board had never taken up a dog-in-the-manger attitude in these matters, and there was no need to fear that the board would
in any way handicap tne council in Us proposals to carry out badly-needed improvements to bathing and dressing shelter accommodation, in which Wellington was so badly off thac at quite a few beaches there were no facilities to enable 'people to conform with the first principles of modesty. The City Council, said Mr. Semple, was to be heartily congratulated on its intention to bring Wellington's beach facilities up to something approaching the standard which should hold in a city of Wellington's population
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Evening Post, Issue 20, 23 July 1935, Page 3
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315THE HARBOUR BOARD Evening Post, Issue 20, 23 July 1935, Page 3
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