SWIMMING BATHS.
Tho neoeesi'y of swimming baths regarded in a sanitary light, and as a means whereby all may have an oppottun.ty of acq liring a valuable and health-giving art, will, wo think, be admitted on all} hands; and facilities in this direction shoald have bsen provided in Ashburton years ago. Private enterprise has never taken the matter op, possibly because there does not seem a probability of such an undertaking proving sufficiently remunerative to justify the outlay. It has, therefore, devolved on the Borough Council T. undertake tho work and, about this season, for several years past, the saojact hai come before the Council but has always, with unfailing regularity, been shelved, shortness of funds being the all-cogent reason This year the matter went so far that a Ccmmittee—appointed m>cy months ago —at the last meeting of the Council brought up a report dealing exhaustively with the various sites proposed as suitable, but the matter again dropped, and for the old cause. A correspondent, whose letter appeared in our last issue, takes exception to the decision arrived at) but with the msagre information then before it, as to ways and moans, we do not see )hat the Council would have been justified in taking any other course. To carryout the work moans an addition to tho present overdraft, and as the ratepayers have expressed no decided opinion the Council did not care to incur such a large responsibility, espcially in view of tho fact that much urgent werk within tho Borough remains yet tr be done. If the ratepayers desire awimmidg baths lot them take action with a view to making their wish known and the matter will remain on the shelf no longer. Wo would rUigoat that a meeting be held in order to test public feeling, end if it can then bo shown that the ratepayers are prepared to sanction the necessary expenditure it is to be hoped no time will be lost, lut that the work will bo put in baud at once so that the baths may be in uie this season
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1364, 7 October 1886, Page 2
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347SWIMMING BATHS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1364, 7 October 1886, Page 2
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