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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19001, 25 October 1923, Page 8

BEAUTY MARRED. TO THE EDITOR g lß> —Having been a visitor in Dunedin for a few days, I am now' better able than before to appreciate that little poem "Dunedin From the Bay,” for in those lines is given a true representation of the natural beauty of vour city. Having gone about the town with eyes wide open, I have been astonished—nay, touched —at seeing the beauty of the place marred by the defacements of public propetty. On Sunday morning I was present at one of the services of a. large church. I was warmly welcomed and had a hymn book handed to me. On opening it I noticed lines and lines of vulgar sentences accompanied bv vulgar sketches on the flyleaves. On buildings and bridges I have noticed much that was blameworthy. Lead pencils crayons, chalks, and pocket knives have all been at work. The frontage of one building that is smothered with vulgar defacings has marked on it "School of Art.” In Dowling street, in the centre of the town, my eye fell on a sentence written in chalk on a* wall. This sentence made me wonder where the writer had acquired such a vile vocabulary. While awaiting an answer in a telephone-box one morning, I saw sentences scratched in that box —sentences which no child had written, but the work of a vulgar grown-up. In a convenience in the public Gardens the walls are covered with vile and filthy language which only vile and filthy minds could employ. Such occurrences in a city like yours call for action. —I am, etc., Visitor. Dunedin, October 23. THE SPORTS WONDERLAND CARNIVAL. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — I trust you will allow me a few lines to express my disappointment at the lack of interest of the cricketers of Dunedin in the Sports Wonderland Carnival. I do not know what support the other associations are receiving, but I do know the cricketers are not doing their share. Probably they forget that several of their fellowmembers have for some months been giving up their time in their interests in connection with the carnival. I know several who have 'worked very hard to endeavour to make the carnival a success and they are disheartened at the lack of support accorded by the cricketers. It is not the committee that will benefit by the profits of the carnival but the players themselves, and they should realise this. No doubt several players have contributed towards the carnival, but their duty does not end there. Where are the old cricketers ? I have certainly seen a few of them, good sportsmen, and where are the present-day cricketers who receive all the benefit from the game? Many of them have not been near the carnival. In. fact, the number of them whom I have seen at the carnival could be counted on one’s fingers.—l am, etc.. Spade Woaca*.