" Nator" writes on swimming baths : — Sir,—L see by last Friday's Herald that " Mr. Aickin brought un.-ler the notice of the City Cmncil that Lho summer would soon be at band, and one of their greatest objects as a municipal body was to conserve the health of the citizens." Ido not think they could show their sense of this obligation betterthan by building aswimmwg iratheomewhere in Mechanics' Bay. The one in Freeman's Bay is a great success, but it is overcrowded all through the summer and is unavailable to the large population living on the other side of the citj. A new bath should be built in deep water, as at half-tide the water falls below the four feet retainingwall in the old bath, and the water in it does not get renovated till half flood tide—a Bpj.ce of six hours. " Hough on Rats."—Clears out rats, mice, roaches. flics, ants, bed bugs, beetles, insects, skunks, jack-rabbits, gophers. Druggists—Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agoats. ,A Clever Arrest.—To arrest decomposition in Milk, Butter, Meat, Fish, Poultry, ic., sc., use " Grlacialine." which vili koep thorn perfectly sweet for'days or even weeks in the hottest waithor. " Glicialino is perfectly harmless. Sold by chemists, Rrocers and storekeepers. Wholesale Agent? for New Zealand, Kinross 834 Co., Napier,-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6820, 26 September 1883, Page 6
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