SEA BATHING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3217, 21 October 1881, Page 2

SEA BATHING.

[To the Editor of the Daily T___o_i_:_.l Sib,—There is one point which your correspondent has overlooked, and that is the safety of bathers; and if you will allow me the privilege of making a suggestion, I should say let the Corporation erect a bathing shed at a place to be decided upon, where bathers could dress and undress, and where life buoys and life lines could be kept; certain times appointed for the exclusive benefit of ladies. At present a sense of insecurity deters many timid bathers, while for our wives and sisters no provision is made by which they can eojoy the pleasures of a sea bath. And the life buoys banging up at the police station are virtually useless, for to be of any service they must be on the spot at the very moment they are required. So few of our homes are provided with bath-rooms that it seems to me every facility should be offered to induce our men and our women, our boys and our girls, to attend to that most important of all tbe attributes of health, the cleanliness of the whole body.—l am, &c, A Stitch in Time. October 21, 1881.