The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY. TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1911. SWIMMING BATHS FOR LEVIN.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 May 1911, Page 2

The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY. TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1911. SWIMMING BATHS FOR LEVIN.

An excellent opportunity to obtain cheaply a .municipal swimmiing bath was indicated in our issue of yesterday. We refer to tho Government's offer to subsidise, by pound for pound sterling (by wa.y of commemorating King George's coronation), any sum win to £250, voted locally for purposes of constructing a public swimming 'bath. One commendable safeguard in respect to this offer is the Government's proviso that the local authority making tho original vote must not draw it from loan moneys. It is well that minor public works should be built on the principle of "first cost, only cost." though on general principles one need have no objection to the practice of leaving posperity to pay :i proportion of the cost of big works that are mi ire to bo a benefit to posperity. Such conveniences as .swimming 'baths, however, are of a perishable, nature: and, further j. tJho baths thafc would suffice Levin today r would be quite inadequate for tlio population of (.say) 1920 A.D. Our citizens as a whole, we are sure, will sec the merits of the stipulation I'm , expenditure out oi' α-evenue, and no doubt the Borough Council will make the .necessary hypothecation of rate revenue. As this will amount to only one farthing in the pound, no hardship is likely to be oniiised to Levin property-holders, but should then , be a disposition to regard a one farthing extra rate too heavy, the Borough Council may find' it practicable to spread the levy over a period of two years, at the rate of (■iie-eiglifch of a penny per annum. On the importance of securing Ibaths for Levin there c.a.n be no adverse opinions, we should wiy; ami now that ont , ' half of the necessary expiMise can iiiei with out of a Government .subsidy, the duty devolves upon o.iir municipal heads to grip Opportunity by her forelock.