Good progress is being made with the work of altering the Hamilton Municipal Baths to provide increased accommodation for bathers and spectators. The whole of the southern wall of the baths enclosure has been removed to make room for 50 now dressing cubicles, and the seating capacity for spectators lias been increased to about 600.
“It is downright wicked that a religious organisation such as ours should.have to pay such heavy rates.” said the Rev. L. B. Busfield, secretary of the Auckland Sunday Scnooi Union, at the annual meeting. He said the union this year had received in rents from its building in Queen street about £9OO and had had to pay about £3OO in rates. Attempts to have the assessment reduced had failed,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18236, 3 November 1933, Page 6
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