VISITORS TO OHOPE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 98, 8 December 1939, Page 4

VISITORS TO OHOPE

Sir, —Of all the self-centred complacency, I have ever read or endured, the recent letter from 'Resident and Ratepayer' just about beats the band. In one sweeping statement he condemns the "whole of the visiting public to Ohope Beach as a horde of hooligans. I have not the remotest idea of. his identity, but can only assume that he comes of the rigirfc okl school of straightlaced blatherskites bequeathed to the world from the artificial days of VictorianismTo assume that a beach was created for a favoured few, sacred to a spiall monied group, barred from the rest of the people who appreciate a few weeks relaxation at the height of the summer, is to my mind one of the things which Ave have bpen fight ing as a race and a nation for hundreds of years. No doubt he looks down from his high-brow position on the rest of humanity, as a rabble, quite unable to control their habits, or capable of enjoying the sea and the scenery, as he, in his higher and more noble existence, does. It is pleasant to note however the gradual demise of this type of thing and in its place the growth of human tolerance which refuses to admit that any one person is made of finer clay than his fellows. Yours etc., VISITOR.