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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 October 1932, Page 8

„A. ' v \^ eawa^e British ' Government official has remembered that no one has the right to bathe in the sea. The foreshore— “that portion of the sea front which is or which may be covered by water at high, tide”—is the property of the Crown. All bathers are trespassers. The Board of trade, to surmount this difficulty, has been m the habit of letting the foreshore at a nominal rent of £1 a year to eighty seaside resorts. The resorts | have imposed bathing-hut charges have let beach pitches to traders, and' lnng has been legal and happy. Cut dunng (he great financial serewip all sorts ol odd methods of exext,a rrom the nation have been pondered in Whitehall The Treasury thought of the profits from puces obtained every year for rem S tbn e t nt T ld enterta3 nment pitches on the beaches round the coast. And he Ireasury became envious. Now Ihe eighty resorts, whose £1 V ear has just become due. have ffi-en eld that in future this rent will no hunger be acceptable. a much higher auk— he exact amount to be fixed by negotiation—will be demanded.