A LETTER FROM "DECENT CHAP."

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 July 1911, Page 3

A LETTER FROM "DECENT CHAP."

To the Editor. Sir,--It is with interest that .1. have been reading ytour many letters übout baths, and 1 think that till is £250 subsidy is a chance we get once in a wbile, and now why not taike this £250, for surely we can raise an equal amount, at any rate we can use some of the thousand odd pounds that wore raised for the extension of the wator works, for, as far as tbe public can sec, not a penny has been used in the ' proposed extension. When the councillors weero elected they were not asiked if they would uphold the motion of public 'baths, for .if they were .1 am sure those MX councillors who voted against the. motion would not he where they are now. They think that because they have never learnt to swim, and the baths would be of no interest to them, that the public who enjoy a swim ought not to have baths. These councillors do not have to pay for the. baths, though anyone would think tliey did. It is tho public who will pay for them, an 1 why not vote for it, and let the people who have to pay have a say, whether they uphold or oppose the motion, for the councillors who were elected to do good for tho place and to see to its wants seem to be studying their own pockets and not the enjoyment and benefits of the public. Tn previous motions there has been a gen urn! P°U> these councillors looked to the benefits, and health, of a little city they would carry the motion unanimously. If Carterton built baths 150 ft liy 75ft with a little over £300, surely with fioOO wo can build baths as large. It seems only reasonable to anv sane person that this is true. Aiiy way, within a short period. T hope to see the Mayor turn the first sod, and thus give Levin its longwanted bathing pond. Perhaps the dirty lake or the muddy water-race is trootl enough for the councillors, bufit isn't good enough for me.— 1 ;:m, vours, etc., "DECENT CHAP."

(Sonic parts of the foregoing loiter have been excised, as they wove, abusive.—Ed. Chronicle).