WEEK-END 'MANNEES

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 27, 1 February 1929, Page 6

WEEK-END 'MANNEES

PLEASURE AND FLASKS

Thoso familiar with Blue Mountain resorts (writes tho Sydney spocial correspondent of tho Melbourno "Argus") wore not surprised by the evidence ad.duced at the Echo Point inquest (concerning the death of a Sydney girl who throw herself over tho cliff). The oxperionces of tho party under tho glaro of publicity were not different from thoso of many other parties noticed at tourist rosorts. Developments of tho last decade have seemed to demand alcoholic liquor as the ono certain means of providing "a good timo." Proprietors and sorvants at Blue Mountain hotels —at tourist resorts gonerally, in. fact— could tell stories which many stay-at-homo people would rofuso to believe. This is true, notwithstanding that tho general desiro is to hear the worst. 1 Only thoso whose pleasure or duty takes them about tho resorts know what is proceeding there. They cannot narrato everything, for reasons that need not bo detailed. Tho general laxity forces itself upon tho attention of ail not participating in alleged revels. The main cause of regret ib that girls who havo left homo with parties for "a good time" at a mountain or coastal resort, but especially on tho Bluo Mountains, aro led into conditions which they never suspected and which may adversely affect their future.