USE OF BATH.

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USE OF BATH.

NECESSITY OR LUXURY-

DISCUSSION IN COMMONS.

( BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHX ' Keeeived June V, V.20 a.m. J ( JLOiNIXLs j J ujie 6. "Is a bath a necessity or a luxury ?" was the suoject ox a cusouia by a comnuiLee ai vie House oi Commons wind, i.s _ considering the Housaig iini. it > originated in Col. Wedgwood and feu1 [ J. jtiaimiton Benn proposing an ameuu- , ment tjiat every flat tenant must contarn- a nxecl bath, which was deteated ■ by 25 votes to 19. , Labour members, in supporting the , amendm-oiit, insisted taat'a batiirooni was a iievessity- lor a decent healthy ' life. ' The Conservative members pointed out that the conversion of big houses into fiats was the only provision in the Bill likely to help the middle-class folk. If a bath in each flat were required conversion would be impossible, J Messrs Prettyman and Newman questioned the necessity of a bath, pointing oat that our great-grand-fathers were washed twice, once when they we;e born., and once when they died. i Major Mol'oy sakl that personally he would rather live in a converted flat without a. bath than in the open air. Bathing was not a necessity, but a luxury. Some of the healthiest people in the world never washed. Provision., for a fixed bath was an obsession. Some people liked a piano because it gave an air of respectability'to the household — : Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.