OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 November 1939, Page 6

OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

OPENING THE BATHS (To the Editor) Sir.—Your correspondent 8.0. (an apt choice) is to be commended for his remarks on the vexed “Baths question." It certainly does look as if our council will let us bathe in perspiration before it will graciously permit us to swim in our own baths. Why is it. Sir. that we in Masterton must forever, it seems, be doomed to do our summer bathing in river holes (when we can find them) and an antiquated pool which should have been condemned long ago. It is not for want of approaching, asking, suggesting and even begging that the council does nothing. The Swimming club has for years advocated new baths, and has annually sent a deputation to the council to make suggestions and air its views, while individual citizens like the late Mr Peacock, Mr H. E. Pithcr, Mr W. S. Dickson and Mr H. Glen have for long been active in the cause, but to date, the best that has been done has been the drawing of plans by the Engineer, and the promise from the council that “the question would be gone into." The remarks of the Town Clerk as to the probable opening date would be amusing if the position were not so serious. "The council will probably consider the matter at its next meeting on 21st instant.” Does it take the combined effort of ten or a dozen men to decide that water shall be allowed to flow into the civic waterhole? And must we play the garden hoses on our children for two more weekends before they, and ourselves, can get wet all over on. a sweltering day? Maj’ I suggest, sir, that the baths be filled and opened for this coming weekend. Thanking you for this valuable space —I am, etc., CITIZEN. Masterton. November 9.