SEA BATHING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3213, 17 October 1881, Page 2

SEA BATHING.

CTo the Editor oe the Daily Telegbaph.] Sir, —We have no a knowledged public bathing place. With that natural regard for propriety which characterises all intelligent people we sought out and appropriated the most suitable and secluded spot, but we have been deprived of it to a great extent by the passing of a bye- , law restricting the hours of bathing within the borough. To show the absurdity of the restriction, one man may go outside the boundary and expose himself on the open beach with impunity, while a second, who seeks the natural seclusion of the Bluff, wdere none can see him unless they go on purpose, is guilty cf a misdemeanor. Now, Sir, let the Bluff be the acknowledged bathing place, and bathers be compelled to wear bathing trunks, and I see no reason why bathing in the surf should be disallowed at any hour of the day. lam an " all the year round " bather, and because I could not take my bath before 7 last winter I had to go without it, to the detriment of my health and comfort. 1 should like to know, Sir, why we, the hundreds of sea bathers in Napier, who revel in that glorious life-inspiring foam, should be debarred of the luxury that lies at our doors by a nandful of Mollf Caudles (who, we very much fear, would be out of their depth in a hand bason). I cannot help thinking of the bricked-up windows I have seen in England, the monuments of that grim abomination, the window tax, which sought to deprive us of the very light of day. —l am, &c, The Greatest good op the Gbbatest

Number October 17, 1881.