SWIMMING BATH HOURS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2492, 10 January 1922, Page 5

SWIMMING BATH HOURS

(To the Editor). Sir, —Surely something can be done by the authorities towards making the swimming bath in Victoria Street one of the town's main attractions to week-end visitors instead of closing it down at 11 on Sunday morning. The Parnell bath in Auckland, where mixed bathing is permitted, remains open all day on Sunday with a brief interval for lunch. Yet here, where everyone is deprived of the inviting waters of the sea and a temperate climate, the public swimming pool is closed before noon, at an hour when motorists, excursionists and others, hot and dusty, are just beginning to arrive from all quarters for the remainder of the day, and very often until Monday. The best of swimmers cannot be expected to make sudden use of a river which has never been regarded as safe for bathing and too often the visitor goes away from Cambridge discontented at the provisions made for his or her enjoyment. Is it not our duty to these people, though they may be strangers, to entertain them with all we have to offer in the way of diversion?—l am, etc., A. P. O'LEARY. Karapiro, January 9, 1922.