NOWHERE TO SWIM

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXV, Issue 64, 26 July 1937, Page 3

NOWHERE TO SWIM

PLIGHT OF ENGLISH TOWNS.

LONDON, July 18. Eight British towns with populaions of 25,000 each, have no muni•ipal swimming baths because they ire not convinced that the consequent •barge on the rates would be justiied.Mr P. J. Noel-Baker, M.P., told he Health Congress. The “News-Chronicle” says that nost municipal swimming baths show m annual loss. Sixty-nine swimming ■tations are provided for London’s 1,500,000 people and new legislation is lirectcd towards inducing the 80 owns without swimming baths to irovide them.