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Huge funding boost for swimming pool ELISE VOLLWEILER The Motueka pool project has been given an “enormous boost” with a donation of more than $400,000 from the Ngawhatu pool committee. Motueka community swimming pool committee chairperson Fred Hickling says he was “blown away” by the size of the donation and gives the Ngawhatu Pool Users Inc sincere thanks for their generosity. He credits the Tasman District Council’s recent purchase of land on King Edward Street as a strong indicator to the Nelson-based group that the long-awaited Motueka pool project was a secure place for their funds. “That was a good solid anchor in the ground for them to look at.” The Ngawhatu pool was originally part of the Ngawhatu Psychiatric Hospital, and when the hospital was closed in 1998, a “small but very determined” committee
The Ngawhatu pool committee met with the Motueka pool committee and other interested parties at the proposed site of Motueka’s future aquatic centre on Saturday, to celebrate the significant boost to the latter’s coffers. Photo: Elise Vollweiler. opened in 2002, and was utilised for 600 user hours a week across more than 30 groups, such as Arthritis New Zealand and the Nelson MS Society, for its ther-
of volunteers came together to keep the swimming pool running, says treasurer and stalwart Jos Pattison. The therapeutic pool was re-
apeutic properties. The pool was run entirely by volunteers, who worked on a roster system. Although the committee fought exhaustively for the cause,
increasing operational costs and complications meant that the pool was eventually closed
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