BOYS' INSTITUTE BATHS
CLOSED FORJTHE WINTER. . Owing to 'the lack of support oil <b< niirt of swimmers and the public goner* ally together with the loss o the annual sulwidy from the City Council (£200), tlm committee of the Wellington Boys Institute have reluctantly decided to clo.e down the tepid baths for the months. The causes tor the closure .18 strengthened by reason of .the fact that the price of coke lias been mcmised, nd a much greater quantity has to be .sea dn? - the winter than the summer to keep the water tepid. The bathsJm® been the means of teaching thomnA. of boys to swim and life-save, and it. is ie_ cri'tted that the one tepid baths ton possesses should be closed wheniot menus of swimming are rendered oallv impossible by seasonal - j loss last year was so serious that tie committee could not reasonably bee its way to repeat that loss this year.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 172, 15 April 1919, Page 6
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155BOYS' INSTITUTE BATHS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 172, 15 April 1919, Page 6
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