The Waimate Advertiser. PUBLISHED DAILY. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1917. SWIMMING BATHS IMPROVEMENTS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 528, 23 February 1917, Page 2

The Waimate Advertiser. PUBLISHED DAILY.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1917. SWIMMING BATHS IMPROVEMENTS.

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The Borough Council should do more for the Swimming Baths (Ran it is doing. If it. was ' 'building Baths now.- instead of having eroded them in 'pre-war ' days when such contracts were reason-ably-priced, it would not 'hesitate to spend a ten-pound note extra so as to provide up-to-da.e conveniences, connected with the underground sewer; but despite Hie fact iha. Lite Baths were built long ago and paid foe, they an}. allowed to remain unimproved. The pan system may he good enough for a' back-blocks village where there is 1 no proper dtaittage service, Tmt it is not iii and proper that such a stylo of tilings should obtain in a modern Borough like Wnimate* The tituttic'pa iiy compels c .u.che ha'.l-k.o t crs, pad others to connect I with tire drainage; therefore, to lie consistent and above reproach (it must practise wlui; it preaches. Otherwise, the City Fathers, by their actions (or omissimF) are, in effort, saying. "Don’t, do as 1 'do, hut d'O a»v I 101 l you," Yesterday’s crowds show how inad.quate the accommodation for rjxe.a.ors is. Now., tiic Council has plenty of room in that paddock, and th 3 fence could easily be shifted away further on one side. Also,- While making this.alteration;, tiro dressing sheds could be extended alon;. ono side,' as there is not half <.■ nough accommodation. ’.Moreover, the platform is too small. This is a sore point with starters and other officials [at evety carnival. Wc hofpo that the Council will show its virility by going beard', y ami determinedly into cite (puestion of. Baths Improvements, ; •