THE MASTERTON PARK

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8234, 12 September 1906, Page 5

THE MASTERTON PARK

ARTIFICIAL WATERS AND BATHS. The Engineer submitted plans to the meeting of the Borough Committee last evening for a protective bank along the Waipoua River, and banks for making an artificial lake in the ten acrea with a piped intake from the Waipoua liiver, and dam, piped outlet and concrete overflow channel; also particulars for a concrete bath 100 feet x 40 feet with a depth of 7 feet of water at one end and,3 feet at the other. The work, said the Engineer, is all of a simple character, with the exception of the excavation and forming of the bath. This, unfortunately, would have to be sunk into the subsoil water some depth, and made it essential that if the bath were located at the site seleoted that it be of concrete, it being in the Engineer's opinion impracticable to retain the water in an open shingle "cut" witnout. The oost of constructing a concrete bath at this site would oe somewhat increased by this water, but the Engineer trusted that it would not otherwise effeat the work. The question of whether the proposed bnths should be cemented or not was disoussed. The Engineer drew attention to the shingle formation of tne ground in the locality, and the difficulty there might be in keeping a 7 feet depth of water in the baths if tbe bottom was not oemented. At any rate the cement work would have to be carried out in water as at a depth of 7 feet in the locality water would be found. Ors Eton, Morris and Hoar were in favour of cementing the baths. Tbe latter added that he thought the baths should be. more than 7 feet deep. The Mayor: All I'm afraid of is that some of the Councillors might be drowned if tha baths were any deeper. Cr Ewington favoured holding tne question of baths ovwr for a while, and proceeding with the ornamental water. It would bo time enoagh to think of oementing the baths when the excavation work Was finished. He thought that the work of excavating and oementing should be let in two separate contracts. Finally the plana for the ornamental waters were approved of, and those relating to the bt»ths were held over.