The Unready Council.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 816, 1 March 1909, Page 2

The Unready Council.

i ! | To-day Feilding's Municipal Swim- ' i jniiig Baths are filled with water and ! * ready tor usv — but advantage <it that j important fact cannot be taken by 1 j the general public, numbers of which ' I have waited so long for their dip in I its safe confines. The contractor" I has been so expeditious in his work j that he has actually caught the I Borough Council napping. But, as we have before pointed out, the Council sleeps so soundly that it would • lake more than a shower-bath to j wake them. Some two months ago a Committee was set up to arrange L a tariff and other matters pertaining to the opening of the baths — and a month later that Committee actually asked for more time 1 Thus did the i bad example of one of its officers, ' who should have had all data by I him, affect the Council. In the Stak ! on February 23 we published an cdi- ; torial note on this very subject, in ; which we wrote : "The Council should 1 certainly prepare for the opening ceremony promptly, making an effort . to hold it early, so as to take advantage of the fine weather that is prevailing." That fine weather is still k with us, the baths are filled, and the Council still sleeps. There is no caretaker; no scale of fees, no ari rangements whatever. It is to be > hoped that the Council can even at j the eleventh hour make such provij sion that the baths may be opened i with the eclat the event warrants i and that — most important of all^ — the ' public can use the baths immediately. j We would like to see an opening carj nival arranged for, say, Wednesday 1 i next, and the school boys and swimI iners generally invited to participate.