THE KUROW SWIMMING BATH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23321, 13 October 1937, Page 17

THE KUROW SWIMMING BATH

TO THE EDITOR Sir, —I have to thank Mr A. H. Chapman. jun.. chairman of the Kurow District High School Committee for his reply to my recent letter about the Kurow swimming bath. His reply is far from reassuring. My chief concern was that the water supplied to the bath should be adequate and pure. Incidentally. it is pleasing to nqte that the bath has now been emptied and the mud cleaned out. It is now being filled by means of a three-quarter-inch pipe. In three months’ time we shall be able to enjoy a bath in Kurow’s latest asset. And, after that? Presumably, finance being difficult to arrange. negotiations will then still be in progress for the installation of- a larger pipe. In the meantime, the bath remains full of water, steadily becoming dirtier and breeding disease. Or do we wait a further three months for our second dip? Or is the water race, with all its impurities, to be used to speed things up? The bath, I understand, holds 90,000 gallons. Yet, on viewing recently the “ beautiful, clear spring ” referred to in Mr Chapman’s letter. T noticed that it was not even overflowing! Frankly, I cannot be satisfied as to the adequacy and purity of the supply, without the opinions of a departmental health officer and a qualified engineer. In my opinion, these matters should have been thoroughly investigated before any constructional work was undertaken.—l am, etc., Hygeia.