PELICHET BAY BATHS.

Evening Star, Issue 3578, 11 August 1874, Page 3

PELICHET BAY BATHS.

To the. Editor . Sir, —In your issue of Friday last I was much pleased in reading “Sanitary Re form’s” letter regarding the disgraceful state ©f the Pelichet Bay baths. I, for, one who indulge every morning through the season in a dip at those baths can fully corroborate the statements mentioned therein. In paying a visit to the baths a few days since, I was highly displeased to find such a beneficial resort in a most ruinous state ; two of the doors I found had been mischievously wrenched out and thrown into the baths, where they can be seen at the present time floating about. The remaining doors are left hanging on one hinge each, and I presume they will soou share the same fate. In one of the boxes I observed a hole large enough to run a wheel-barrow through. I should not be surprised to hear of the boxes disappearing next, considering the baths are left open as a resort lor all tljo larrikins abpuj; * tpwri. In Reference to the management of the baths for the last two seasons I have not one word of praise to bestow. I can 5 only say it would be impossible to bring the baths to a more disorganised and filthy state. To my knowledge the boxes have not been washed out for the last two years. Occasionally I have seen a brush passed in at the’door, not for the purpose of brushing out the dirt, but merely to sweep it into a corner of the box with the other refuse previously accumulated. In letting the baths for the forthcoming season, 1 hope the Council will exercise wise prudence by appointing some one who has a reputation for civility, temperance, and industrial habits. The Councillors for Leith Ward will, I trust, feel it their duty to visit such a standing disgrace to tkeir ward, and at the next meeting' of the Council will advocate active measures for placing the baths in good repair. I would suggest the advisability of erecting an extra half dozen boxes, also the great necessity ef extending the platform to the end of the bath. With the present acit is quite impossible in the m seasoh to find room to dress bn the ptesent platform, leaving the boxes out of the question altogether. 1 would also call attention to the dangerous state of the platform and the steps leading down into the water, otherwise the Council will perhaps some day be called upon to pay heavy damages for some unfortunate’s broken leg, —I am, &c., _ Penguin. Dunedin, August 11.