SWIMMING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81898, 3 December 1906, Page 2

SWIMMING.

Owing- to the sky being- overcast there was not the usual large attendance at the municipal baths on Sunday morning. The weather was beautifully warm, and numbers of bathers seemed tu enjoy the pleasure that the iocul authorities are apparently so conservative about. The trustees {or the owners of the IxUhs might with advantage give some publicity to the fine asset the town possesses in its up-to-date saltwater swimming baths, instea dot depending on the free .advertisements given lr.iin time to time in the news columns. Swimmers are talking a good deal of the promised installation of the electric light, and it is probable that night swimming will !,- very popular. A go.nl deal of enjoyment and amusement could be obtaned if a trapeze and a couple of s.ls of Roman rings were impended ever the centre of the bath. Besdes giving considerable tbenefit bv the gymnastic feats and tricks that might be performed, the unskilful as Veil as the skilful performance of these would have the effect of attracting more people to the baths, not necessarily to swim but to look 011. Spectators wou'd, of course, contribute to the revenue of the baths. Would the authorities subsidise a subscrigtion frog th 9