The Archive · 1934

New Swimming Pool Next Year

Council Decides to Build in Singapore Park A. swimming pool for residents of the Western Distriat, to be built in [Singapore Park, in Singapore Road near Kiaochow' Road, is to be injeluded in the Budget for 1999, according to a decision made" last Wednesday at a meeting of the Shanghai Municipal Council.

When the preliminary estimates of the Health Department were consi dered last February, an item of '$7,000 to provide for additional dressing room accommodation at the Jopen air swimming pool in Hongkew Park was deleted, as the Committee }was of the opinion that inasmuch as the congestion at the pool was very great it was preferable to provide an-father pool rather than to incur addi tional expenditure on the existing The Commissioner of Public Works

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