KAWAROA PARK.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1924, Page 5

KAWAROA PARK.

A PADDLING POOL. GIFT FROM MRS. HONEYFIELD. New Plymouth has already benefited considerably by the generosity of Mr*. William Honeyfield, who has donated to the town the fountain on the Esplanade, two tram shelters and the gates to Te Ilenui cemetery. She has now further supplemented her gifts by providing the cost of a paddling pool for children at Kawaroa Park.

With the addition of this pool, which will be excavated without delay, Kawaroa Park will ‘became a veritable paradise for young people, with its extentive playing area and all manner of modern contrivances for providing amusement for children The pool will be situated on a reef a little westward ot’ a line drawn seaward from the 'band rotunda. It will be cut out of the rock, and the proposed dimensions are 80ft. by 60ft., with depths of 9-in. at the shallow end and 18in. at the other. Being at about high-water level it will be self -filling, and an experiment made by the KaWaroa Park committee with a small pool leads to the belief that the act-ion of the sea will keep it -clear of sand. For about an hour at either side of high water the pool will be submerged, but will, of course, be usable by the larger children. Mr. E. P. Webster has been appointed executor to look after Mrs. Honeyfield’s interests concerning the provision of the paddling pool.