BATHS AT SCHOOLS

Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1940, Page 11

BATHS AT SCHOOLS

ACTIVITY IN TARANAKI It was pleasing to find that many schooi committees were providing school baths and that grants were being provided to help them, remarked Mr. W. H. Jones at a meeting of the Taranaki Education Board yesterday. A good deal of activity was being sliown by the various school committees in connection with the construction of school baths, stated the architect, Mr. C. H. Moore, who reported that at the Norfolk school a contract had_ been let to construct a pool 40ft by 15ft by 3ft deep in reinforced concrete, flat type. At Mangatoki he had taken the levels and the committee had excavated the site, so that the board's workmen wouid construct the baths on the slab piinciple while on the new school job. He had fixed the site at Otakeho for baths 30ft by 15ft by 3ft deep, which the committee proposed to construct in reinforced concrete. The committee at Riverlea also intended constructing a small bath in reinforced concrete. Kaponga also had in hand the construction of baths at the corner of the playing field, the Kaponga Town Board having promised to lay water on and give free service. Grants of £50 had been approved by the department for Norfolk, Mangatoki, Riverlea and Kaponga, and application would be made for a similar grant on behalf of Otakeho. Omata, Normanby and Tarata were also moving in regard to the provision of baths, but with the exception of Tarata. the water supply was rather a problem. Lepperton, the architect understood, was also mnking a move in the mattor of baths. He was lielping the committees., by preparing plans, the understanding being that the work had to be done to the satisfaction of the board, stated the architect. The question of the proposed site for a school swimming bath at Normanby was referred to ward members and the architect to confer with the medical officer of health and the school committee on the site.