TE ARO BATHS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2901, 13 October 1916, Page 6

TE ARO BATHS

IMPROVEMENTS BEING EFFECTED. With the coming of summer, atten-: tion will be directed, towards the municipal baths at Clyde Quay. It will, be remembered that the state of the bottom of these baths, and consequently, the water, came in. for somecriticism.. At the eastern end that portion of the wall'nearest Clyde Quay consisted of a wooden fence with a space betweeneach paling. As a great deal of the flotsam from the harbour, driven by, the prevailing winds, was blown into the corner made by,the baths-andthe Clyde Quay wall, the refuse was gradually forced through the openings,, where, when it became sufficiently, water-logged; it sank to the bottom and formed a bank, which, in the warm weather, gave off a noisomo effluvia altogether obnoxious to bathers. To obviate this nuisance the old palng or batten fence has been removed, and the concrete wall has been continued into the banki Apertures are being left in the wall well below low water mark to allow of the freer ingress and egress of the sea. Further, tho City Engineer (Mr. W. H. Morton) is arranging to instal an electrically-driven pump, by. which means he hopes to clean up the bottom of the baths', after which it is surmised that-tho bottom will'be kept reasonably clean from all impurities.' It is suggested that, an iron grating at the outer.seaward corner of the bath 9 would be a good place for a tide-gate. Had such a.grating 'been placed on the corner and continued vertically to a point a couple of feet below, low. water •mark, the nuisance now costing so much money would have been averted.'