Swimming At Local Beaches

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27580, 23 December 1950, Page 6

Swimming At Local Beaches

CARE NEEDED

hN Bathers are urged to exercise the greatest care when swimming at the St. Hilda and St. Clair Beaches during the next few days. There is a strpng backwash on the St. Hilda Beach and there are rips {* running both towards Lawyer’s Head and St. Clair. There are some holes just outside the flags at St. Clair, but if swimmers remain between the flags at both beaches the patrols will be saved much anxiety.

6 Popular Resorts

'■ The Government hotels at Wairakei - and the Chateau are two of the most popular holiday resorts this season. *' Both are fully booked from the end of this week for some months, and the visitors this year will include a number j. from overseas as well as New Zealanders. Mr L. S. Dennis, manager of - the Chateau, said that guests would be able to obtain liquor from the hotel for the first time for 20 years.

Mission To Lepers

The New Zealand Auxiliary of the i Mission to Lepers, at the end of its financial year, reported that its revenue, which had climbed from £4600 * to £23,700 between 1940 and 1949, had now reached £27,700. The extra revenue was urgently needed because, With the fast rising costs in the East, * the leper colonies of the mission were having to turn many sufferers away. The proven success of new drugs offered opportunity for considerable expansion in the mission field.

Memories Of Bully Hayes

The gazetting of the revocation of Hokitika as a port of entry for Customs purposes is a belated chapter ip the story of a port which once could claim to have 41 vessels of all nationalities in port in one day. For many years now only small coasters have used the port, but in 1867 it was no ■ strange event for the notorious Bully ? Hayes to put in with his schooner " Bona. In fact, on New Year’s Eve ■y of that year Hayes arrived with a cargo from Fiji of 50,000 oranges, 50,000 7 limes, 1000 cockatoos, 80 pigs, 200 pineapples, and a quantity of South Sea curiosities, all for auction. But Bully r ’ Hayes was nothing out of the ordinary I'for Hokitika, and even then Hokitika ’ chose to regard him as a former Central Otago publican rather than one of the South Pacific’s picturesque t, figures.