b'pavilions or other buildings and conveniences and to charge for admission, subject to, in the case of reading rooms, the limitation on such charge, that it shall not be made on more than 12 days in anyone year nor on more than four consecutive days. Section 56 of the Public Health Act 1925 gives a power to the local authority to charge reasonable sums for the use of cricket, football or other games or recreations in part of any park which has been set aside for those purposes. An interesting power is found in section 21 of the Land Settlement (Facilities) Act 1919 which enables the council of any borough, urban district or parish to purchase any fruit trees, seeds, plants, fertilisers or implements required for the purposes of allotments cultivated as gardens, whether provided by the council or otherwise, and to sell any articles so purchased to the cultivators or, in the case of implements, to allow their use, at a price or charge sufficient to cover the cost of purchase. This section is subject to the caveat that the powers conferred shall be exercisable by a council only where they are of the opinion that the facilities for the purchase or hire of the articles from a society on a co-operative basis are inadequate. Section 225 of the Public Health Act1936 Act allows a local authority to close, temporarily, to the public any swimming bath or bathing place under its management and then grant either gratuitously or for payment the exclusive use of the bath to a school or club or to persons organising swimming practices or contests, aquatic sports or similar entertainment or may itself use it for such practices, contests, sports or entertainments. The authority may make or authorise the making of charges for admission to or for the use of any swimming bath or bathing place whilst it is closed to the public. Under section 226, a local authority can close the swimming baths or bathing places between October and April and can allow it to be used or let for such purposes and upon such conditions as it thinks fit and may adapt it for the purpose of being so used or let. Section 229 enables any statutory undertakers supplying water, [gas] or electricity to supply water or electricity to any public baths, wash house, swimming bath or bathing place, either without charge or on such other favourable terms as they think fit. Section 231 allows a local authority to make byelaws in respect of public bathing and to regulate the manner in which huts or tents may be used and the charges which may be made for the use thereof. Section 12 of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 provides that a local authority whose area consists of or includes the whole or any part of a national park may make arrangements for securing the provision in its area (whether by the authority or by other persons): (a)of accommodation, meals and refreshments (including alcohol within the meaning of the Licensing Act 2003); (b)of camping sites; (c)of parking places and means of access thereto and egress therefrom and may for the purposes of such arrangement erect such buildings and carry out such work as may appear to them to be necessary or expedient. There is a proviso to this section that such accommodation, meals or refreshments shall not be provided, except in so far as facilities are inadequate or unsatisfactory (a statutory statement of the obvious if ever there was one!).Section 13 of the 1949 Act enables a local planning authority in respect of a national park to carry out such work or do other such things as may appear to it to 138'