THE SANDHILLS.

Evening Star, Issue 4028, 24 January 1876, Page 3

THE SANDHILLS.

To the Editor.

Sin,—l notice in your last night’s issue it is reported that a deputation hailing from South Dunedin went to the Superintendent yesterday regarding a recent application from St. Kilda, to lease the sandhills which adjoin the municipality of the latter, and which will be swamped if this natural wall of the ocean be removed. The South Dunedinites modestly asked his Honor for a share of this ground, "as the hills formed the only place of recreation in the neighborhood, and thought the St. Kilda municipality were asking to obtain them as a source of revenue ”; and furthermore asked whether they were going to get L2 for every LI of their local revenue ? Doubtless these influential gentlemen and those they represent are wishful to get into a practical way of making their "piles” in a s-.mmary manner, which in itself is highly commendable, but would nevertheless be more to their credit if it were a shade more unselfish. Will one of this learned deputation deign to “ think ” and say what greater right they have to a part of the Sandhills (which are about a couple of miles distance, and entirely separated from them by the intervening township of St. Kilda) than they have to a share of the cricket ground at Kensington, which Hes a matter of only half-a-mile from them ; or to the Dunedin Town Belt, which is much nearer on the one hand than are the Sandhills on the other.

< The only thing which I can see they are entitled to from St. Kilda is the example to render themselves less foolish in the eyes of the general public by not so constantly parading their “ tin pot ” municipality, and waiting upon the Superintendent with childish requests,— I am, <ic. Observer. Dunedin, January 21.