DAY’S BAY EN FETE

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 98, 24 January 1928, Page 9

DAY’S BAY EN FETE

BEACH .CROWDED WITH HOLIDAY-MAKERS

Anniversary Day marks the end of the summer holidays in Wellington. That must have been inborn upon many as the seaside resorts .were very liberally patronised by holiday-makers yesterday, when the weather was on its best behaviour.

Given these conditions, there is no more popular place for one-day trippers than Day’s Bay, which literally swarmed with people. The beach immediately southward of the wharf hummed with life, and from a distan-e looked as though a dense crowd of gaily-dressed bees had swarmed there. So closely assembled were the people who preferred bathing at intervals to the hill climb through the bush, that it was not without having to watch one’s step that a way could be threaded through the more or less undressed sun-bathers, who seemed to thoroughly enjoy the skin-tanning process they were §o cheerfully' undergoing. The day was a big one for the Eastbourne Borough’s ferry and bus services, whilst visiting motorists found some difficulty, in securing parking space. The tennis courts and putting green were kept fully occupied the long” sunny day through. The beaches at Lyall Bay, Island Bav, Worser Bay, and Petone were also well patronised.