BATHING SEEDS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1971, 30 January 1914, Page 5

BATHING SEEDS

IMPROVEMENTS AT EVANS BAY. During its peregrinations on Wednesday tho Reserves and Baths Comrnittco of the City Council .visited the bathing sheds at .Evans Bay, where there was said to be congestion. That was certainly the case ivhen the committee, accompanied by tho City Engineer, arrived early in the evening. Bathers, not; beingable to find shed accommodation, resorted to the hill-side on the opposite side of tho road, and there donned their bathing attire in full view of the road. Ways and means were'considered as to how tlie accommodation could be easily and economically oxtended,. and finally it was tacitly agreed to recommend the proposal mado by tho City Engineer, to conhect'the ladies' and gentlemen's.bathing sheds together with a broad platform (which would be chain in length)( 'partition it ill. 'tho. coritro and cover it in \vith a lean-to roof, 'that would provido'accommodation for several ijuiidred hiitliors in addition to those.'wio oou?d"b<s: accommodated in tlie sheds.

Mr. Morton's idea is that no great expenditure should be involved at the present time in providing bathing accommodation in Evans Bay. Later onwhen the Kilbirnio reclamation 310 a is completed, he thought that tho road —the' Queen's Drive—instead of taking the turn westward up to the Post Office —would ho continued along the waterfront on the seaward side of the newlyreclaimed land. Whon that was accomplished, the engineer proposed to recommend that now bathing sheds should be erected on the new water frontage,' so that 'they will be equally available to tho people «F north and south Kilbirnio, nnd quite handy to Newtown residents.