MIXED BATHING.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12509, 23 May 1906, Page 8

MIXED BATHING.

TO . THK XJDITOB OS "THS .MtKM.^Jjjß Sif. —As a stronger' in this, city'fraH to a few months ago, ;I coon visited t™H ! two charming seaside resorts, .Sum^^S 1 and New Brighton, a.nd what struck-^S| most was-the Uttle advantage takeqjjljl them .by the public in the matte^iP sea especially by the foicggKcll Why should it not be as popuMfflfijlgp amusement as skating? It is «e™||§§fj - more healthy, but the idea off"Muffll .bathing*' seems to horrify the - MwSJBI j aristocracy; ot least,' the lii^Jptjrp^m Probably if they visited the Ameriol^| I watering. places and .saw kdi» iattirSi^ in bathing costumes ready io*;'*yplmiij|i they would be thoroughly hotrjfied? 'w&M In order; however, to;popakriwvtJitpK healthy recreation,"/adequate prorislS^ must oe niado for WTcssing-rooflM, e^i^^ I and now is the'time to take flbn» ; fttwp| in that direction for Eert'summri^^ Christchurch, May;2l«t,-;l9pßi!||^?^B NEW' ZEALAND' ■ UNIVERBITY .-STANDARDS^SI -TO 'THE SDITOE OF "THi'.rjUtM^^^ Sir,—Though nb:-dtfulit"'.it ; issue on the points raised King, I cannot allow Dr. marks on the superiority of Zealand over- the Australian University work,, to: pass withOntfCM^ I suppose Dr. Benham wu»fem|i|| to his own special.department,^n^H biological studies, and in that he bm^^ right, though I rather thiitk.tbllHß Professgr' Hesweli or Dr. "Stirl^sMllffl over Here they would have soni©tl2ttg|||| say. '• As regards, howevpr,:"s<m» iftffiß branches of learning, it is abiu«l'^iMnS that the New Zt^land..Dnivemty'.«rwW dard is higfibr" than the- Auatratig^ Compare ( for a moment the Med|«| School at Dunedin with the fine HeKi^ffl at Sydney and Melbourne. "--'HoFfiiloHH possible . that the work done in-riDj^a edin can, be better than thatidqon^m Sydney or Melbourne? The arttUUWJia is not conclusive, 1 know, but the ffiwH ney University Medical School, wioi'i|jwS Pnnce Alfred Hospital, which i9>«ttM^ ed thereto, cost more than all the ItfjN^ versify Colleges in New Zealand jjra^ together. '■''■''___w_\ Again, in the department of 'WE&Wi with which I am more familiar, j '-)*sWm ' is not a physical laboratory in NW;«|j||| j land worthy of tho name— itt&^pKmm fessor Rutherford, when he- wai/-K^^| drew attention to the way this 6 " Dl ?*<KS^ I wsts neglected. Where has any^'PßknM ! nal physical work come from a N«JW--*H!B| lantf physical laboratory ©xoopt; *w|^ J Rutherford did himself? and I tdkmpMm i after all, research is tho truo tallJi§|| , standard—at any rate, in a live aoieatoJJ^ , All the physical laboratories in An4w||| I lia are doing their thare. P*°f*Pj|| Bragg has made quit© a name for hufc^ I seli and the Adelaide University, by'J&jm j researches into the alp|ia raya wJfeiH radioactive bodies, and Professorr«fflgH j lock, of Sydney, and Professor '^__^M I before him. have done excellent yOTjj| ! the former on Hertzian waves, and 'T#__\ j latter on the electrical propertieift^ffl ; pure sulphur, tho physical propen^HJ of quartz threads, etc., etc. Of fl°ttgfgjj : these aro tho work of the heads rfjfjsm ■ departments, hut with them a has always been associated. Ls generally the students' work, **t3B ,by hints from the man in charge. Snj||i accomplishments are not at P resen^ljS^ sible in New Zealand, and although t«|| amount of research done I^*jsjß laboratory does not indicate tho **j^B3|b ment of the average student. S'**- I "^^ dicates the vitality of the from the amount turned out in «^f§ , Zealand Colleges only ono concluaWSi lean bo drawn regarding physics, *>*&& that the subject is dead.—Yours, «*».#& j C. COLERIDGE F- 4^^