LIFE SAVING AND SURF BATHING

Evening Star, Issue 19891, 13 June 1928, Page 2

LIFE SAVING AND SURF BATHING

THE PAVILION PROPOSAL A special general meeting of the. members of the St. Clair Club is to bo held on Monday next to consider a suggestion by the City Council that the club’s pavilion should be removed in order to permit the new ’dressing sheds for surf bathers to bo erected on the site which is now partly occupied by the club’s building. If this suggestion is agreed to tho present building will be demolished, and the life saving members of the club will be provided with free quarters in the new building. Plans for tho new concrete structure, which will cost in the neighbourhood of £2,000, have been prepared by the city building surveyor. The cost will bo shared equally by the City Council and tho St. Clair Improvement Association, and it is now suggested that in order to leave ample room on the sea front for the possible extension of the esplanade towards St. Hilda the new structure should he erected whore the club’s pavilion now stands. Although the club has a financial membership of over 500, the great majority are surf bathers only, and take no interest in the life saving activities of the club. Under the suggested new conditions only the qualified life saving members would bo admitted to the portion of the new building which is reserved for the Life Saving Club. The balance would cease to bo members of the club, and would patronise tho public portion of the new building.