Boxing-Stadium”

Suva City

Baths

“Turn it Into Boxing-Stadium”

BECAUSE boxing is booming in Fiji, and swimming is not, it has been suggested that the Suva sea baths be turned into a boxing stadium.

The abolition of racial barriers at the baths does not appear to have made any appreciable change as far as takings are concerned.

On a recent hot Sunday after noon, when formerly the baths would have been patronised by a number of European adults as well as juveniles, the baths contained only Indian and Fijian youngsters.

The only Europeans who had at tended were a couple of visitors who used the baths before breakfast.

The baths have not “caught on” yet with adult Indians or Fiijans, and if patronage is confined merely to a crowd of noisy youngsters the baths will still continue to show a loss.

The suggestion that, if the baths continue to lose money, they be sold by tender to some person who could see possibilities in turning it into a boxing stadium, has some merit from the financial viewpoint; but

would be odd if a place the size of Suva, which claims city status, has no swimming baths. t Mr. Donald M. McLean, Sales Manager of the General Milk Co., Melbourne (“Carnation” and “Blue Cross brands), recently paid a visit to French Oceania, where his * S building U P increasing