SWIMMING BATHS MYSTERY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 78, 24 December 1937, Page 8

SWIMMING BATHS MYSTERY

Our Owu Correspondent.")

Waipukurau Committee Will Not Disclose Its Plans

(From

WAIPUKURAU, Last Night". The presenfc spell of hot weather in Waipukurau is causing everyone to ask, "When will the public swimming baths be ready for use?" The saone question has been asked regularly cvery summer for several years, but this time the're is something to hope for, for it Was announced last month that the site had been chosen and that the plans were already in the hands of the architeets. The excavation work, it was then pronjised, would be put iu hand quickly. Questiohed to-day as to what was being done about the matter, however, the secretary of the Waipukurau Baths committee, Mr F. A. G. Dunn, repiied that he was prepared to give no iuformation whatever, and would not an3wer any questions. At a meeting of the Waipukurau Ckamber of Commerce on December 6, a resolution was passed asking that the baths committee should be asked to diselose to the publie through the Press the facts which had determined them to deeide finally on the Hunter Park site for the baths. At that meeting objection to the site chosen was voieed by Mr W. Lourie, who deseribed it as "the worst possible site." He enumerated a number of disaclvantages which, he said, would result From the placing of the baths in Hunter Park, and suggested a number of alternative places. When invited to comment tEis afternoon, however, on the fact that the information asked for at the Chamber of Commerce meeting was not forthcoming, Mr Lourie declined to sav anything, xemarking that it was a matter for the Chamber as a body, rather than for an individual member.