CLEAN SWIMMING BATHS NEEDED

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 112, 2 August 1927, Page 8

CLEAN SWIMMING BATHS NEEDED

Sir, — Knowing there is no surer way of reaching the bulk of the population of this city than through the columns of your most progressive paper, I hope you will see fit to publish this letter, since it concerns a matter of vital importance to the community. though we live in sunny Auckiwid. “where it never rains,” mid-Winter seems a strange time to talk of swimming, yet it is to our swimming baths that I wish to draw attention. I think it is fairly safe to state that last summer the most popular sports rendezvous were our two cold-water baths, and the Parnell bath in particular was packed to capacity on every holiday. Unfortunately, however, owing to the mud floor of this bath, on nine days out of ten the water was extremely dirty, and it was almost necessary to have a shower to get clean again after a swim. As the Public Works Depart-

X Z. — 1 ment is at present heightening Jj* walls of this bath, surely no"’ >* time for the City Council to oft-made promises to have tie ■ of the bath laid down in con^ ~eTL w necessary, the bath could for a week or fortnight now any loss of revenue, and I the additional number of g tracted by the prospect of a clean water would soon repay “ ; council for its outlay. I hope tae patrons of the bath willtake _ matter, for any right-thinking immediately recognise the beneficial effect of a svrtmmmrsuch as this provided the clean. Thanking you for v al '® f S «e to bring tins matter t* fore readers. H sTBOCJ* Domain Drive, Parnell. “CREDENTIALS NEEDED'’ te ‘Apropos the multitudinous mission appeals now before ( Zealand public, the ..nrii* f* of an incident that occurred jefwar on board the mammoth w**titia when that vessel was _ carrying Chinese navvies fax, X.S-, to France. I fe[£tof a Canadian guard of eigh J stljr d' | tailed to keep watch over . , aSt jjs ; Northern Chinese on a vo J’ a * rfoi § *- sixteen days. On the wa -. _ mV*' inexperienced rio<l a Mongolian with his bayon ship was instantly plunged mult. I hurried missionary ters (employed as escorts) t and to my astonishment ,i>f. to take the side of . the do stating that it was impoliti .**•. Humanity was urged as an 8 s but the missionaries remain rate. The military authorities finally did what the teousness refused to do, that justice was done anC* g-stf ing situation was smootheo. of then I have taken an asUßn foreign missions until their are established beyond tn F\ v tbef* ture of a doubt; and are missionary organisati earC b£* methods will stand the mo scrutiny. , the gs9**\ We remember the case missionary who not long *® vr t the forehead of a Korean c jftD* the word thief and how tn Japanese seized the i ncS ® ive ant** very fit tiedium of an inters* Christian campaign.