SUMNER BEACH.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20488, 5 March 1932, Page 11

SUMNER BEACH.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE PKES3. Sir-Our Mayor of Sumner 'S obviously anxious to plcass all tastes, however varied tliev may be. J ! °r n " stance, those people who prefer a level waste of beach, exposed to every wind, with drifting sand to add piquancy to their seaside refreshments, are now amply catered for at the Scarborou D end of our beach. Others of us, possibly misguided, still prefer the sail - hills in their natural state, with tn pleasant shelter they afford with tiie lupins and grass. It is about tlie lupins that I now write. In previous years these have been ruthlessly destroyed to please a certain section or the public, so [ am given to understand, but now that this section nas been provided for so thoroughly elsewhere, I hope our Mayor will now fee free to please the Nature-lovers ana leave our remain ins; sandhills in all their natural beauty.- —Yours, etc., RATEPAYER. March ith, 1932. TO THE EDITOR OP THE 11! ESS. Sir, —After reading much correspondence in your' paper about Sumner I decided to take a trip to that spot, beloved of my childhood, and was horrified to see that the sandhills were being removed. The late Mr Menzies Gibb loved to paint these beautiful sandhills with their lights and shadows and marram grass. Perhaps when the last has been levelled to make a c£^ r " riage way, a sum of money will be set aside by some future Council to try and purchase cne of his beautiful paintings, to be hung in the Council Chamber; it will be all that is left to remind- us of what Sumner was, as Nature left it. Surely there must be a body of men with some foresight' to protect what belongs to the people lor all generations.—Yours, etc., ONE OF THE PEOPLE. March 4th 1932.