PUBLIC INDECENCY.
• W nen f-will , the municipal authorities bestir themselves in the, matter of providing suitable •bath's 'for thY people ? If it be true that cleanliness^ is Sie^ to godliness, the City Council do not appeal to' possess much of the latter, seeing that they show so little regard for the former. One ■of the immediate results of this negligence is that ■people who desire to live cleanly are not very .fastidious as to offending against public decency in the places which they select to enjoy a dip. 'Crowds of youngsters may be seen every day bathing on the beach within full view of St Mary's Orphan Home. About noon on Prince of Wales' Birthday no fewer than 30 or 40 of them went through private property to this spot and disported themselves in the briny within a few chains of the institution. In other places along the shores of the harbour public decency is equally l outraged. The bathers are not so much to blame for this as the authorities who neglect to erect l &proper bathing estaalishments.
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 167, 24 November 1883, Page 3
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179PUBLIC INDECENCY. Observer, Volume 7, Issue 167, 24 November 1883, Page 3
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