SALT WATER-BATHS.

Evening Star, Issue 5041, 1 May 1879, Page 4

SALT WATER-BATHS.

TO TUB EDITOR.

Sib,- —I was glad to be observe another letter on this subject in your morning contemporary, signed by “ X.Y.Z.” I .am entirely with him when he affirms that there is in our harbor plenty of water, pure and deep, wherein we can have a delightful plunge. There is no better spot than Black Jack Point, as indicated by him, to which cheap motning trains could be run. Leader after leader' and letter _jdter letter have appeared in your journal, but without the desired effect, and I have resolved that .this will be my last epistle to you on this subject.

Surely our worthy councillors cannot * appreciate a bath,- otherwise they would have had them constructed long ere this. If it be the money that' is required towards erecting them, I certain that there is no citizen but would willingly pay his share of the expense in connection with them. I would suggest that a meeting of gentlemen who appreciate baths in a sanitary point of view, and who believe in the utility, as well as .the pleasure, of the art, of swimming, should take place, and give an expression of opinion as to the most suitable place for the erection, of-baths, and thereafter to wait on ourworthy councillors. Now is the time to take action! It will no doubt .take our worthy councillors three months to deliberate as lio whether such a formidable undertaking is within their reach—the spending of a few'hundred pounds towards'invigorating our bodies. In the event of a favorable decision being come to by the Council, it will take several months more before the undertaking'is completed. I don’t know of any town adjoining the sea in. New Zealand without its baths. Really, Mr, Editor, if I were a councillor I should feel somewhat ashamed at the number of letters which have appeared and are appearing in our newspapers on such an all-important subject.—l am, etc,, J. Neill Brown. Dunedin, April 30.