EASTBOURNE
(To the Editor.) Sir, —The Eastbourne Borough gets a very bad time from one and another, and I don't think that half the people who are continually on the warpath know anything about this unique little seaside place. It is only a stretch of beach, about half a mile wide and three miles long, consisting of sand and shingle—a natural drainage. There is no clay to hold impurities, so why compare it with places that really ought to have drainage oii account of the soil. As for water, all the residents have good tanks, which are well filled till the summer sots in (which is not often), and as* rain water contains iodine,, of course, there is no goitre. One has only to sec the hundreds of bright, healthy, energetic children that the borough contains, how absolutely healthy Eastbourne must be. Certainly the "tip" might be improved upon, as it is almost as bad as* the one that used to be seen and smelt some years ago in the Empire City near Newtown; only in that case it was surrounded by dwellings. In this ease it is all on its own—lonely *nd neglected. Motorists don't like it at all, but still they come. They can't keep away from this fascinating seaside resort.—l am,. etc., : BEACH COMBER.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 139, 15 June 1931, Page 8
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217EASTBOURNE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 139, 15 June 1931, Page 8
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