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Rangiora swimming pool

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Rangiora swimming pool

This 25-yard (23-metre) pool opened in February 1912 to commemorate the coronation of King George V. Initially boys and girls had to swim at separate times, but from 1916 the council allowed mixed bathing.

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Reference: P27/064A

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Jock Phillips, Country towns – Social life, 1870–1920, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19410/rangiora-swimming-pool (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 1 March 2009.