ST. CLAIR.

Evening Star, Issue 10696, 8 August 1898, Page 4

ST. CLAIR.

TO THE EDITOR,

Sir,—Allow ma to congratulate you on your lender re St. Clair Domain Board, and I only wish that whip oi yours would be used more frequently. With you 1 think it is a matter of great regret that "the Domain Buard appear to be quite oblivious of the responsibilities with which they are entrusted. Instead of earnestly deliberating on the best method of coping with the dangers that have already marred and now threaten to destroy one of the most valuable assets possessed by the community, the Boird are shocking the public by tin exhibition of excessively bad taste and childish recriminatiou3."

I also am sorry to see that the barb wire fence erected by Mr Hancock and others is ineffectual iu stopping the sea from devastating thelandaroundSt. Clair. Howmuoh more money do the Board intend to devote to barb wire fences and sandbags, with a policetn in to watch over all ?

Suruly it is high time, as the Board having shown sigus of incompetency, that the people of St. Clair and the Flat, should reuse themselves by calling upon the Board to resign at once, with a view to electing men with some sense and push, who will adopt some definite plan for immediate action. The (Xago people, as Mr Downie Stewart once said, " are a peculiar people," and will not be roused into concerted action until they see men of some spirit at the head of any affair that is taken in hand. A wall has to be built so aa to form a splendid esplanade from the St. Clair Baths to the Ocean Beach Hotel. Whatever it is to co3t must be raised and can be raised with the help of the Government; but I object to the Board squandering money yearly, as it i 3 a matter which concerns the whole of Oiago. I think His Worship the Mayor of the City should call a public meeting in the City, and some men of spirit, energy, and persistency be entrusted to set the ball rolling. Dunedin and its suburbs will then j.)iu hand in hand and will help St. Clair to be what it ought to be, the premier watering place of the South Island. When once the wall is built the improvements will take place by leaps and bounds, and we will be able to'boast of a second Great Yarmouth in this pirt of the world.—l am, etc , C. B. Dunedin, August 6.