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Here is another press cutting. The New Zealand Mail was a weekly newspaper based in Wellington, which ceased in 1913. None of the two Wanganui newspapers covered the story. Wanganui is now spelt Whanganui.
The new swimming baths of the Wanganui Collegiate School were formally opened last week. The baths have been erected to celebrate the 60th year of Her Majesty’s reign by the boys themselves, helped with subscriptions from old boys and parents of boys at the school. The heavy work of excavating some 200 tons of sand was done entirely by the boys, and the concreting and fitting was paid for out of a sum of £235 which had been subscribed. The dimensions of the bath are 75ft by 30ft, and it is filled by an artesian well 575 ft deep, with a flow of 40 gallons a minute, and a temperature of 63deg. A number of the leading citizens of Wanganui were present at the opening, and, as Mr [Walter] Empson, [Headmaster] proclaimed the bath open, some 80 or 90 naked boys stood ready for the first plunge, one or two of them in their haste almost forgetting to divest themselves of various articles of clothing.
New Zealand Mail, Issue 1393, 10 November 1898
The new swimming baths of the Wanganui Collegiate School were formally opened last week. The baths have been erected to celebrate the 60th year of Her Majesty’s reign by the boys themselves, helped with subscriptions from old boys and parents of boys at the school. The heavy work of excavating some 200 tons of sand was done entirely by the boys, and the concreting and fitting was paid for out of a sum of £235 which had been subscribed. The dimensions of the bath are 75ft by 30ft, and it is filled by an artesian well 575 ft deep, with a flow of 40 gallons a minute, and a temperature of 63deg. A number of the leading citizens of Wanganui were present at the opening, and, as Mr [Walter] Empson, [Headmaster] proclaimed the bath open, some 80 or 90 naked boys stood ready for the first plunge, one or two of them in their haste almost forgetting to divest themselves of various articles of clothing.
New Zealand Mail, Issue 1393, 10 November 1898
