WAINUI BUSES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21581, 7 December 1944, Page 6

WAINUI BUSES

Sir,—We are proud of our beaches; yet T venture to say that mc.it of our summer visitors never see Wainui Beach. Few people wish to spend the entire day on a beach, preferring to lunch at their hotels, yet so inconvenient are - the hours at which the buses run to Wainui that to spend a forenoon cr afternoon there is well nigh impossible. A bus leaver, at 10 o’clock, but. ar, there is no return service till 1.15, a forenoon visit cannot be made. In the afternoon a bus leaves at 1 o’clock, but to catch it one has to rush away a hurried lunch, and this is not always available at a hotel. The 3.H0 bus is taken otT during the holidays, and in any case is too late, and so this glorious bench, where one can sun bathe on the sand dunes, picnic in the shade of the pine trees or surf ■on the ocean rollers must remain unvisited until such time as a suitnbl - holiday bus service is inaugurated. What is the use of the Beautifying Society planting trees if no one visits it? ’The council cannot plea a shortage of buses, since there is a halfhourly service to Kaiti from where it is but a few minutes run to Wainui. There is, however, little use in running a holiday service unless the bench is brought before the notice of visitors. This could be most simply done by affixing signs to the telephone posts at Peel street and the Gladstone road bridge—where the A.A. signs already are—Wainui Beach 3 miles. —RESIDENT.