THE PUBLIC BATHS.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —It appears to me that unless the Council goes about tho bath scheme more carefully than they have commenced they will land themselves and the public in total defeat. Who ever heard of an estimate being prepared for any kind of work without first having something to go by. The first thing to my mini the Council should have done was to instruct their engineer, or some other competent person, to prepare plans and approximate estimates. For without one has the plan of a work before him, it is utterly impossible to make an estimate; and, moreover, how is one to convey to the minds of the Council and the public the kind of baths we are to have without having some data to show, besides I understand that the Premier has made it one of the conditions that plans shall be submitted to him and approved by the Government Engineer before the site is granted. I see by the last meeting of the Council that Councillor Penty states that the bath would cost .£SOOO or <£6ooo. Perhaps they would in days when there was no competition, but at the present time I venture to say that the work can be carried out for very much less than Mr Penty’s estimate. —I am, &0.. Aquatic.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2426, 4 February 1895, Page 3
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222THE PUBLIC BATHS. New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2426, 4 February 1895, Page 3
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