PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2674, 21 January 1916, Page 9

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

MAYOR'S BELGIAN FUND. His Worship the Mayor acknowledges the following:— £ s. d. Amount previously acknowledged 4691 15 10 Inglis Bros, (64th instalment)... 10 0 Employees, Gear Co., Petone (45th and 46th instalments) ... 17 4 6 Herbert Seaton (22nd instalment) 2 0 0 iE4712 0 1

The attitude of the police in prohibiting sun-bathiug on Cheltenham Beacli, Auckland, was severely criticised at* a meeting of the Devonport Borough Council. The Cheltenham Swimming Club wrote protesting against the rigid enforcement of the by-law prohibiting bathers from sitting ill the sun in bathing costume. The Ma.yor, Mr. A. M. Pickford, said there was no doubt that the police had taken up a rather peculiar attitude, and one which' was rather different from that which tho council intended. At the time the bylaw was first enforced, Mr. W. Handley, who was then' Mayor, stated that it was necessary to give the police extended powers owing to the unsatisfactory conduct of a number of bathers. The rosult was that tho police had now taken advantage of the by-law ajid were enforcing it up to the hilt. The Mayor added that when he was elected Mayor he informed the police that the by-law was not intended to apply to bathers properly clothed. Tho Cheltenham Swimming Club had done its best to assist the council, and it now soemed that it had tho club antagonistic to it. It seeri\ed that the police could not use discretion. Mr. J. W. M'Calhfm said that one of the chief attractions of Devonport was the beach, and if the council was going to worry peoplo it would tend to prevent people from patronising the beach. It was decided to send a letter to tho police pointing out the council's position in the matter, nnd asking that the by-law should be carried out in tho spirit in which it was first intended.

' Private Ilufus Courtney, who was one of the first New Zcaknders to land at Gallipoli, is invalided in a hospital at Cardiff. Nurse L. Bailey, writing to tlie soldier's undo, Mr. R. M'Manus, of Little River, on December 3, stated that he was suffering from enteric and was making slow, but Rood progress. It was also stated that he would soon be quite well again. German merchant shippers havo never favoured the Kiel Canal. They prefer tho long sea voyago to the toll charges.