WATER FOR BATHS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 32, Issue 3290, 19 July 1943, Page 8

WATER FOR BATHS

REQUEST FROM WAIKINO PETITION TO THE COUNCIL NO SUPPLY AVAILABLE A request for assistance in providing water for swimming baths in connection with Waikino School was contained in a petition forwarded 'by the Waikino Parents’ Association to the Ohinemuri County • Council, and read at the meeting of the council on Wednesday. The covering letter stated that Cr. F. L. Franklin (Waihi West Riding), would support the petition at the council meeting. Councillor Franklin said if the water was available he would be pl ease d to move that the council comply with the request of the Waikino parents’ Association. The chairman, Mr W. Marshall: That is just the trouble. The water isn’t available, as was mentioned when this matter came up two years, ago. The county enginner, Mr L. E. Shaw, confirmed the chairman’s statement. He added that there was an ideal water-race not far from the school, and he could not understand why the Waikino School authority didn’t ta]> that ample source. The position was that the water from the council’s supply was not available in the summer months when it would be most needed. In reply to the chairman, the engineer said the Education Board would not subsidise swimming baths unless these were actually in school precincts. The chairman moved that a letter be forwarded to the Waikino Parents’ Association expressing regret that the council was unable to supply the ■water necessary for swimming baths, but stating that the council would be glad to help in the matter in any other way that was possible.

Councillor T. Cotter: As councillor for the riding concerned, I second the resolution, because I see no difference to-day in the position that obtained when this matter came up two years ago, when the request of the Parents’ Association was declined on the sole ground that the water was not available. He added, amid laughter, that the Waikino petitioners, in asking that Councillor Franklin sponsor the petition, must surely have thought that that councillor would have greater powers of persuasion than the member for the own riding—the speaker. The motipn was unanimously adopted.