The Times Published on Tuesday and Friday Afternoons. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1921. A BOROUGH SWIMMING BATH.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 679, 1 November 1921, Page 4

The Times Published on Tuesday and Friday Afternoons.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1921. A BOROUGH SWIMMING BATH.

With the approach of summer the need of a public swimming- bath in Pukekohe will again be acutely felt. It is old history that the War Memorial proposal was orginally to take this form, but that matter having been settled differently, does not do away with the need for this most useful civic requirement. Very many smaller boroughs than Pukekohe have for years included a swimming bath in their municipal activities* Pukekohe can own a similar institution if .the citizens make up their minds that they will have it. The number of <Jea|ths from drowning in the Dominion during a year almost warrant being taught to swim a pact of ithe' public school curtieelom. Quite

“We nothing extenuate, nor aught set down in malice.”

apart from the healthy sport, an up-to-date swimming bflfth provides the Value of learning to swim to fthe young is beyond calculation. Though the fafct.pf .up-keep should* perhaps, not be allowed, tp weigh, a swimming hath can be as in Cambridge, where, under the auspices of a progressive swimming club, night swimming carnivals ai*e held, and prove more attractive than pictures from the public point of view. Indeed, so popular do these night sports prove, that valuable trophies and money prizes are offered, and swimmers from Auckland, Hamilton, and other centres are keen competitors. The same enthusiasm and interest could’ 1 be worked up in Pukekohe if we but possessed a municipal swimming bajth. If some public-spirited citizen would' endear himself to posterity and donate a site, it would be possible, by -public subscription, dances, socials, concerts and sports, to raise the funds to put in a really fine and modern public bath, which would be a source of pleasure and pride fto this town for all time. Let it not be said that in the spring of next year that this itown is so backward that it cannot boast a swimming bath in keeping with the importance and growth of this prosperous district.