SWIMMING BATHS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2674, 19 June 1894, Page 4

SWIMMING BATHS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— According to your report, at the Geraldine Cycling Club’s meeting the other night, Mr Muller, of Ashburton, showed the advantage it would be to Geraldine if public swimming baths were made in the domain. I quite agree with him. I think it would be a great boon to the place Some time ago Mr Maslin suggested the same thing to the Domain Board, but the board have since found out that the work would cost more than the funds they haue to expend on it, and beyond cleaning out the creek and making a dam they are not going to carry out the work in its entirety, as they at first thought of doing. I suggest that as the Domain Board have not enough funds to carry out the work, that public subscriptions be got up, or that the local talent get up an entertainment in aid of bo worthy an object.—l am, etc., Amphibious.

IHE LATE ENTERTAINMENT. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —-Permit me, as a new resident in Temuka, to express the surprise and pleasure I experienced in being present at the entertainment at Temuka on Thursday night. 1 was entirely unprepared to see and hear such an excellent amateur performance, manifesting, as the various tableaux and vocal and instrumental performers each did, the careful, painstaking, and, one would judge, much time spent in the rehearsals which must necessarily have been given to prepare for such an entertainment. One must not forget the well-behaved pony, alias donkey,' who stood fire so capitally, apparently knowing his part by heart. The only regret one could not but feel was the paucity of members of the audience. It is to be hoped that as the results financially must have been meagre, that before the spring, on another bright moonlight night, and making known the object to which the profits are devoted, back seats six pence, and ladies selling tickets m advance, the same performers may secure a crowded audience equally as well-conducted and enthusiastic as last evening’s was. Also that the efforts to be made tomorrow (Saturday) to help clear oft this debt of the Wesleyans may be more financially successful. —1 am, etc., J. Peckover. *■* Temuka, J one 16th, 1894. “p.S. The query seems to arise as to what John Wesley might have thought of the tendency of the tableaux acting on young minds. Would he not have been jealous as to the possible likelihood of creating a love for theatrical amusements in the minds of those now occupied in such performances? J- P«