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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13334, 24 March 1911, Page 7

' Yesterday, no doubt owing to the excessive heat; was a record;’day at the Municipal Tepid Baths. The custodian estimated that during the day there had been an attendance of nearly one thousand people. In the evening the water was swarming with swimmers; indeed, ' one could almost have walked across the hath on their heads. A new game had been introduced, called “push ball.” There was 'a glorified Association footßTill, fully 2ft in diameter, which everybody was doing his best to push about in no particular, direction. The rules of the game had not been evolved, but everybody pushed the ball about in everybody else’s way, with the greatest of good humour, amid shrieks of laughter. Mr Billson took the opportunity of pointing out the need for another and larger bath. Ho pointed to the gallery, which was almost lost to sight under a mountain of multi-coloured clothing, heaped up in such glorious confusion that the owners would have the utmost difficulty in separating their own particular vestments from the general heap.— Lyttelton Times.