The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-09-04 00:00:00

BATHING AT BWANAGE.

On Tiweley last, at the Wareham County Petty gooier's,
John Whit,, bathing machine proprietor, of Swanage
Hated to the timed malest,• be
eepeare.l to an.wer a summons charging him with allow..
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trary to the Bye-laws the Local tit. N.
Howard, of Weymouth, appeared fie. the Local Board ;
Mr. Reginald Aldridge, of Poole, for the defendant. —Mr.
Howard said Po Local Ward was not M all vindictive,
and if defendant would offer to cenforin to the bye-laws
, he wall eminent to an adeornetiont to enable him to do
no ; lea Mr. Aldridge said his client would rather have
the opinion ef the magistrates iine of the byelaw'.
—Mr. JOlllOl It %Irk vi L ICA II rad, produced a
certified ropy of the bye•laws. and also • mop of the
beach, where a spot had been fixed upon for ,he
machines alsot 100 yard . Iron the Mow lets-road, and for
the gentlemen'. machine§ abut 200 yards the other way.
All the machine priprietorshad fallen in with the arrange.
ment except defendant, who still kept his heir ina thine.
In the lame appointed for ladies. He Lul hal complaints
repeatedly if the machine* used by the different mixes
being Co near together. Ile hail offered Ilefenflant a
election of sisite to film, his machines, awl there wag no
reamn why he could not place two in one place
gild two in the other. The Board had been lax
in carrying out their bye-laws till thin year, but the
arrangement now made waait for the rublic benefit and
decency.—Crone-examined by Mr. Aldridge : He hail Pent
new bye-laws up to the Local Government limn% lot
they had nut been sanctioned. Ile believed one of those
bye-lawn was to the effect that machines should be used
exclusively by either males or female*. Male, and femalee
had always bathed not of defendant's machines at different
holm, and defendant had put up a pointed notice board
to the following eliol.; —"Heirs for bathing at the Hest
four machines -Gentlemen from six till nine:
nine till two ; Gentlemen from two—J. D. WHITE, July
17th, 1877." Ile did not *auction the putting up of this
notice. A petition was sent to the Loral ivernmeat
Board against the new bye-lawn being sanctioned Bet
examined by Hr. Howard ; The Local Government Board
had drawn up model rules, and refused to maction new
ones till them had been considered.—Mr. Joseph Parsons,
Inspector of Nuimnos to the Local Board, stated that on
the 24th of August, he was near the beach from 10 till
11 White's machines were placed 24 yards from the men's
machines. Ile saw female, go out of the machines into
the water, awl defendant went with theni to learn them
to swim, lie told him he was not to go into the water
with women to learn them to swim.—Thomas Clark,
laborer, to the Local Board, said he WWI near the beach on
the 24th of Amelia and saw defendant's machines under
50 yards distant from the machine. appropriated to males.
He saw a gentleman go into one .4 the defendant's
machines whilst ladle% were using Stiekland'e machine.
less than 50 yards ili-tait—Mr. Aldridge, in Addressing
the Bench for the defence, paid his client was the only
swimming master at SVIAIWP, and he had saved two lives
within the last year.—Mr. William Masters Hart said he
was Surveyor to the Local Board in 1075. When the bye.
laws were panned in that Veer he provided defendant with
a copy of thou, awl defendant sabl he NSW by this that
' his machines were too close to the others, and Raked him to
assign him apiece. Ile measured a spot 200 yarilmlistant
from the other tneellinia and assigned it to defendant
officially. About the early part of this year he believed
Stickland encroached on the PM yards. He knew that
' new bye-laws were exhilated at the Board-room, one of
which was to keep machines exclusively for either males
or females. These bye-laws were not sanctioned by the
, Local Government Board, who wrote to say they were
getting up new rules and could not eaaction others. If
' defendant's machines were pommeled he could not attend
to them, and it would Ire • serious loss to lam Ile
' repeated the fret to the Board in Pf7s that he hail mewled
a spot to defendant for him machines.—The Bench doaded
that defendent had broken the bye-law, the object of
which wax decency, but as they thought it was an error of
judgment on his part they ordered Min to pay the costa
only, at the mine time telling him he mount conform to the
bye-law, and place his machines Bel yards apart —Defend-
ant wax further summonol for going into the water with
ladies to teach them t i swim, complainte having been
male about this, but it was agreed that this Cll4O should
' be dismissed without a derision one way or the other, the
Chairman at the mine thee rot 1111 l mending defendant to
; get his wife hi teach ladies ti bathe.