Where Cooling Wavelets Croon

NZ Truth, Issue 1151, 22 December 1927, Page 1

Where Cooling Wavelets Croon

Then, too, there was the regulation that held sway m New Brighton, the fine beach that brings surcease and enjoyment to thousands of people. There they made it a penal offence for anyone clad m a bathing costume (no matter what kind of bathing costume) to lie on the sand face up. Modern improvements m the cut and design of bathing apparel, however, is rapidly making regulations unnecessary and our bathers less like dripping retrievers. The latest costume on the market consists of a smart pair of shorts, a colored belt and a smart, multi-colored top. This has the effect of lending trim boyishness to feminine figures and neatness to manly flirures. It should be universally adopted arid would solve the problem of what is, or what is not, "good form" and decency for beach wear.

Of all the glorious beaches of New Zealand it would be hard to single out one as the best, for each has its particular charm and appeal. Be it the silver strand of Dunedin's cliffbound St. Clair, a nook under a glorious pohutukawa m Auckland's harbor, or any bay where the tide rolls m from North Cape to the Bluff, they are all featured by surpassing: loveliness or rugged primitiveness that gives the good old summertime another useful string to the bow of public, appeal.