SWIMMING POOL AT OHOPE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 120, 7 February 1940, Page 4

SWIMMING POOL AT OHOPE

Sir, —There is plenty of time to consider about the swimming pool at Ohope for, if it .was made even straight away,, it could not be used till next December. Two months out of every twelve is the short time of use of such a pool. Is it worth while to spend hundreds to make a good for two months of use each year? The proposed pool is to be filled with bush water from the creek. Water from a busli crcck is laden with vegetable matter and silt and it would be impossible to keep the concrctc of the pool from being cov- * ered with green slime. The whole thing would be smellic—not clean "V and sanitary, and no mother would let her child go into it. And this, notwithstanding perhaps twenty scrubbings and cleanings during the two months. The expense of the cleanings woulcl be consumable. Bathing in cold fresh very apt to cause chill. Do you know that our Borough School made a fresh water bathing place in the Maraetotarn Stream for its pupils, "lhe bathing in it had to be stopped owing to dozens of the children constantly suffering from chills and colds. ' A swimming pool should be Riled with sea water. The salt in the sea water would keep the pool clean and sanitary. Anyhow no scheme should be considered that does not bear the approval stamp of the Health Department. Yours etc., "BE CAUTIOUS." 1 We have been asked to correct a ~" r statement made in a letter from our correspondent F. Mahy, who asserted in last Monday's issue that the mover of the motion that the surplus money held on Ohope's behalf by the County Council was not, a ratepayer. Since then it has been proved that the mover is a bona fide ratepayer m every respect and had every right to move in the ili- ' rection he did. Ed.