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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 344, 31 May 1877, Page 2

Whilst the City Council is bestirring itself to secure for Oamaru a plentiful water supply, a number of influential citizens are endeavouring to institute another important sanitary measure in the shape of public salt-water swimming baths. The fact that this scheme can undoubtedly, by judicious manipulation, be rendered a pecuniary success is not the most important feature that attaches to it ; nor do we believo that visions of profits likely to accrue actuated the promoters in taking the matter in hand so much as a desire to institute a means of recreation and of promoting health. There is no physic so potent for enhancing the strengtli of the strong, and resuscitating the health of the invalid, in numerous instances, as saltwater bathing, and we therefore hope that the success the initiators have a right to expect at the hands of the public will be accorded them, and that we shall be able to announce ere long that the baths are an accomplished fact. That such will be the case, we have little doubt, taking into consideration the smallness of the cost of construction and the advantages to be derived therefrom. The price of shares has been fixed at such a rate, and the terms of payment made so easy, that every working man may possess himself of an interest in. the company, which will be tantamount to securing for himself and family the most effectual means of invigoration free of cost, or we are greatly mistaken.