SWIMMING BATHS.

Evening Star, Issue 3257, 29 July 1873, Page 3

SWIMMING BATHS.

To the Editor, Sir,— lt may not bo out of place, in view of the approaching season, to turn our attention in our prosperity to that most necessary of all institutions, namely, the swimming bath. The present baths at Pelichet Bay are admitted on all hands tube very inconvenient, in a very dilapidated condition and not at all suitable for ivhat they are intended. The attention that the bather receives, too, is of a very meagre description. I know for a fact that the only good spring-board was placed there by parties who take an interest in swimming ; the sides also of the baths are giving way. The Superintendent has, on various occasions, expressed an ardent wish to have good baths erected, and I think he could not do better than carry his wish into execution by placing a sufficient sum on the .Supplementary Estimates to assist in their erection, say, inside the end of the trainingwall, to which point a narrow walk could easily be made by prison labor. The Corporation, too, would, no doubt, supplement the vote from the Government for so laudable an object, which would be quite as good as spending money on the improvement of the Town Belt. In the event of these bodies voting a sum each, there would be no difficulty in augmenting the donations by an appeal to the citizens, who, if I mistake not, contributed largely to the erection of the Pelichet Bay baths. Trusting that you will use your influence in this important matter, —I am, &c., Plunge, Dunedin, July 25,