DEEP SEA.ANGLERS' CLUB.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 443, 27 February 1909, Page 7

DEEP SEA.ANGLERS' CLUB.

Sir,—An erroneous impression is likely to ho created by a letter appearing in your is. suo of Saturday ,lnst • under the heading "A Rational Sunday." It is quite true that a • few of the club left town oa Satur- . day and vent out fro© Paremata early on ' Sunday morning, but it should be remem-:" > hored that tlio extent of the calamity was ' not realised when they left' town, and when ' the. of life was mado known it was too I lata to recall them. Your correspondent 1 wakes it. appoar that with full knowledge of i the oalamity. the club, embarked on its ordinary fishing trip, which is not true any . more than 'it is true to say that these men Jferp. fyihinj» in tho vicinity of tho wreck, H is. difficult ta exactly define "vicinity,": but the fact that they: were at' least twenty . i of tho wreck should alter the impression your correspondent appears so anxious to crcatc. : The .members of > tho Deep Sea Anglers' Uub are no more devoid of *' human feelipg ' , than. !\ny ; other section of the community, ,' . and, in this respect it may be mentioned that the captain.of the club, Mr. Q. J. Lock. ™m, who lives at Island Bay, and who got early intimation .that succour might be r<* quired,; started immediately for the -wreck ' With stimulants and. food which were welcome 1 , indeed to the survivors whom- he met making : their way glong the beach.' From; about mid* ' day until dark this gentleman was one of r. the few workers who, on the Saturday,' rescued tlie , bodies from- the breakers and earned, them beyond tho reach of the sea," . The members of tho club have a perfcct . right to their own views of what constitutes a rational Sunday, and even if your correspondent does not agree with those views ho should not "allow ihis feelings to find vent - m exaggeration .and misrepresentation.' Hia i criticism would bo better applied to the morbid sightseers who spent their Sunday " gazmg at the poor/-: barely-covered bodies, whose muto lips; could -form no protest — X am, etc., J, G. W, DALRYMPLE, > , - • - Hon. Sec. February 23. Deep Sea Anglers' Club.