BATHS FOR THE MASTERTON SCHOOL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8485, 12 July 1907, Page 5

BATHS FOR THE MASTERTON SCHOOL.

SUGGESTION BY MR W. H. JACKSON. "I have been glad to notice that in •connection with the proposed erection of baths in Masterton, the Borough Engineer and others have advocated a site adjacent to the school being chosen, stated Mr W. H.Jackson in his report to the Masterton School Committee, last evening. "I sincerely hope this will be given effect to. For some years past I have sent squads of boys in charge of one of the senior masters for lessons in swimming and lif .'-saving. This has necessarily been attended by great loss of time, and it has been possible to do it only on a limited scale. With baths near the school, or better still, with a school bath, this would be avoided, and provision could be made for regular instruction and exercise for every child in the school, unless physically unfit. A school of the size and importance of the Masterton School should have its own .-school-bath. Hundreds of schools i n America and at Home have such provision. There are schools in our own colony more fortunate in this respect than ours." The inembei's of the Committee were of opinion that baths were necessary for a school as large as Masterton, but the difficulty was a site. It was recognised that it would be an expensive matter to build baths solely for the use of the school, and it was thought that the Borough Council, when fixing the site for the Municipal baths, might be induced to fix the site in the vicinity of the school, where the children might conveniently take advantage of them. A committee, consisting of Messrs Cork, Waddington, Fendall, O'Leary and Rev. J. N.Buttle was appointed to interview the Mayor and discuss the question of baths with a view to arriving at some conclusion in the matter. '

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