I was most interested to read your recent article titled ‘Swim club gives Mount pool fresh look’.

My mother, the late Majorie Banks, was on the Mount College Board of Governors. She noticed two things: Students were not bringing lunch to school; and there was no swimming pool at the college.

In the meantime people like Sonny Wall were transporting members of the Mount Swimming Club to Tauranga, early each morning to train at their Memorial Pool.

Mother quickly organised interested parents into two rostered groups. Group A would buy the ingredients and make healthy sandwiches each weekday morning. Groub B would bag these sandwiches, sell them to the hungry lines of students and bag the money.

Every Wednesday my father Cedric Banks would drive to his dairy farm at Pāpāmoa. On his way back to the Mount he would stop at the Te Puke dairy factory. He bought a huge block of cheddar cheese and would bring it home. Staff at the dairy factory called him Mister Cheese. Eventually there was enough money from the sandwich sales to begin building a new school pool.

Barbara Bianchin (nee Banks), Tauranga South