BLUE BATHS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 118, 11 January 1932, Page 6

BLUE BATHS

SANITY. .

ANOTHER VISITOR. /

(To the Editor.) Sir, — It is evident that your correspondent "Visitor," from his letter in this morning's "Post", has never studied economics. To any thinking person, his letter, in regard to completing the new Blue Bath, is obviously the expression of a nonthinker. The need, at the present time, is for productive works and, even without counting the financial returns, the mere visual expression of the new Blue Bath's popularity should be sufficient to convince anybody of its financial justification. Re the questioin of the Public Works Department or private contract carrying out this work, this is a matter of Government administration, but the important fact is that if an undertaking is going to justify itself then it should be carried out. The new Blue Bath is such an undertaking and, to the meanest intelligence, a iustifiable work. — I am, etc.,

(To the Editor). Sir, — I do riot propose to discuss the pros and cons of "Visitor's" suggestions that the Blue Bath should be finished by contract instead of by day labour, but I do suggest that "Visitor" is not serious when he makes the alternative suggestion of discontinuing work on the Blue . Baths altogether on the score of economy, etc. If "Visitor" cannot realise that the present success of the small section of the Blue Bath is but a forerunner of a greater success to come when the major scheme is completed, then he or she, is a singularly unobservant visitor. The Blue Bath is going to be the greatest medium for entertaining visitors and persuading them in this helter skelter age to linger longer here, that the town can get. The "Morning Post" has been a strong advocate for the completion of the Blue Bath and the residents and visitors are fortunate in having such a live paper to watch the district's interests. The sooner the residents bestir themselves to get right in behind the "Post" in its advocacy of progress the better it will be for all concerned, including visitors. In the meantime a suggestion that the Blue Bath should be stopped half-way and thus take its plaee alongside the South Island Main Trunk, the Dargaville Balloon loop and other political curiosities, is not an economy suggestion at all, but a much stronger suggestion of a lack of vision op the part of your correspondent. — I am, etc.