THE ST. KILDA BEACH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23582, 19 August 1938, Page 14

THE ST. KILDA BEACH

TO THE GDITOII Sir.—Under the above heading, your correspondent, Mr Patrick Hayman, spent a great deal of time writing about a four-foot shark in an advanced state of decomposition on the St. Kilda beach. He must have a lot of time to spare. I have not, and so I shall advise him briefly to invoke the aid of a child with a spade. The child will soon dig a hole alongside this "monster of Loch Ness," and Mr Hayman can push it in and cover it u- with sand. He can then breath the ozone with impunity.—l am, etc., Dunedin. August 16. Go Slow.

, TO TUB EDITOB Sir,—"Time passes slowly in St. Kilda"—a shark lies decaying on the St. Kilda Beach. The poor sharktime must pass slowly for it! But what manner of man is this correspondent of yours who is capable of making such a brilliant discovery as that "time passes slowly in St. Kilda"? With all this slowly passing time he attacks, first, the poor defenceless shark (which, after all, had to die somewhere) and then the member? of our Ocean Beach Domain Board. May I suggest that your correspondent kill some of this slowly passing time at St. Kilda by taking his bucket and spade over to the beach and there burying this thoughtless monster which has been so unkind as to die anywhere at all. Having done this, he could .then stroll nonchalantly "up the slope which leads to the sea, breathe in the beautiful sea breezes," and then return down the slope to gaze with rapture4nd delight at the garden plots, paths, and hedges—work of the members of the Ocean Beach Domain Board, whose time. I am sure, instead of passing slowly at St. Kilda must speed at a terrific pace everywhere through the attention given by them to the wants of themselves and the affairs of their fellow-men. No. Sir, I cannot allow these men, who sacrifice their time to provide beauty spots on this earth, to be criticised by Mr Patrick Hayman. Be he young or old —and, we hope, of course, sound in body as well as in mind—then let him do something to assist the Ocean Beach Domain Board and members in their works, and then and then only will he stop writing "Time passes slowly in St. Kilda."— I am, etc.: Mens sana in corpore sano.