BATHING DRESSES

Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1933, Page 6

BATHING DRESSES

TAKAPUNA MODIFIES BY-LAW.

CARTOON ANNOYS MAYOR

(Tar Fiess Association — Copyright.)

AUCKLAND, November 16. The Tak.-puria Borough Council does not mean t 0 ‘insist on the wearing of neck-to-knee 'bathing costumes on its ■beaches, despite the old by-law which remains on dt s books. The Council decided laist evening that bathers may wear anything that conforms t 0 the standard of common decency. The Mayor (Mr Guiniven) expressed alarm lest the publicity given to- the 'Council’s .recent re-affinn.'-tion of the neck-to-knee rule would deter trippers from coming to Takapuna beaches “It is a shame they should be discouraged by the wrong ideas of costume,s we allow,” he said. There was never the intention that costumers should be neck-to-knee. In any case that would strictly mean that a collar would have to be worn.

The Town Clerk read the resolution passed six years ago, modifying the old

by law. Mr Guiniven said that cartoonists at that time had ridiculed the suggestion that two referees be caLe-d in if the beach . inspector were in doubt a.s to the respectability of 'any costume. “Personally speaking,” h e concluded, I’d like to bang these newspaper people. A councillor; “Some of them.” The Mayor : “Most of them.”