The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1886. PUBLIC BATHS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2473, 10 December 1886, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1886. PUBLIC BATHS.

The warm summer weather which makes the young and vigorous in the community take to the water like ducks or young frogs, has set in and bithers are in despair. They possess in the Waipoua a convenient stream for their aquatic prowess, but from want of propar arrangements being made they cannot fully avail thomselves of the advantages which it offers, The oni's of providing proper bathing facilities for towns rests, under the Municipal Act, on the corporation. As we understand the law we should take it to be an imperative duty of .the Masterton Borough Council in the first instance to see tbat the ■ river in the viciuityof the town is protected 'from impurities, and in the second to provide public baths at some convenient | oint tin its course. We have heard of bathers in the river complaining of the water being foul, and there dissatisfaction espied at the difficulty there is in finJing a place for bathing where the bather is likely to be free from molestation. Bathing is so essen--1 tijil to the health, comfort, and cleanli-'mm-'oC young people that it is expedient tbat proper provision should hi made for their enjoying aquatie pastime without annoying other psople or being in their turn worried by from oonstubles and Cemetery Trustees. We hear that some of the bathers this season have been threatened with a publio prosecution it they did hot observe, certain hours for soing.jnto the water. It would. perhaps, be an advantage jt a threat of tbis kind were carried out, as the effect jfcit would be to call publio' attention to the necessity of making proper provision for bathers. Every season we have-been m the habit of calling, attention'to the expedienoy of utilising ;'.be Waipona for publio baths, and.we ohkll continue; to ";dq"'s6 until 'the itorougli Councils take,the question up aud discharge the rosporisiljilitu'S vested :n .if bylaw for establishing public t'aijjis. J ; ~., ~ , ■)■•■■?