BROKEN BOTTLES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 18, 10 November 1948, Page 4

BROKEN BOTTLES

Ohope residents are getting worried about the broken bottle menace again. Only the other day a little boy cut his foot rather badly, and his father, on investigating, found tlpat what had done it was a part of four beer bottles which had apparently been thrown at each other in a sandhill near the road on the busy western end of the beach close to the shops.

This country has no law against the innocent enjoyment of a bottle of beer at a picnic or, indeed, on almost any occasion except a dance. But that is no excuse for people to act in a way that might endanger others.

Whoever smashed those bottles in a place where it must have been realised young children would probably play showed an almost criminal irresponsibility. It will be recalled that the BEACON had occasion to call attention to the same thing last year, when two children were hurt, one so badly he required hospital treatment. That to the drinking public to show reasonable consideration fpr others is now repeated in all sincerity. If bottles, must be left lying about, then they could be left intact, and possibly in some place where some enterprising youngster on the look-out for extra pocket money might find them and turn them into cash. But the safer thing would be not to leave them about at all.