BATHING ACCOMMODATION.
With the advent of warm summer weather, sea bathing, for which Auckland offers so many opportunities, is again popular. The City has provided much appreciated baths at' Shelly *Beach, but there are other beaches where very kittle expenditure by the local authority would greatly convenience the public. For example, at Cheltenham Beach there are often hundreds of bathers; yet the most inadequate accommodation is provided. . There is no reason why sufficient bathing shelters should not be erected at every one of the Auckland beaches frequented by bathers. This would be the cheapest way of providing additional swimming baths, and would encourage the most wholesome of exercises in the safest way. Far more accidents take place at isolated and unfrequented spots to which bathers are frequently driven than at commonly used and shelving beaches. Instead of the popularity of bathing increasing risk of drowning accident the result is to minimise loss of life; for swimming is only acquired where the opportunity to learn presents itself and, in spite of occasional sad fatalities to strong swimmers, it is notoriously the nonswimmer who endangers his own life and the lives of others.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15174, 13 December 1912, Page 6
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191BATHING ACCOMMODATION. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15174, 13 December 1912, Page 6
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