Rolling Home

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26708, 1 March 1948, Page 4

Rolling Home

For those St. Clair residents who had taken positions of vantage on the sandhills, a walk home along the beach after the fireworks display offered not only a quick exit from the crowd, but also, on so fine a night, a pleasant ending to a stirring occasion. The obvious route appeared to be straight down the sandhills to the level sand, and almost without exception St. Clair people followed it. With equally few exceptions, in the darkness, they misjudged the steepness of the inclines and found themselves toppling forwards. Those who watched from below, after recovering from their own falls, claim that the sight of dozens of people, young and old, rolling down the hills together to land in tangled heaps at the bottom was as fine a piece of comedy as Centennial Week provided.