BATHING IN THE SURF.

Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 67, 26 February 1895, Page 3

BATHING IN THE SURF.

(to the editor.) Sir, —I beg to call atteniion through the medium of your valuable paper to the increasing custom of young men bathing and disporting themselves in the surf in most decidedly insufficient c'othing. It is only since the beginning of the year that I have noticed this, but the nuisance is on the increase. To put it mildly it is unpleasant for any of our lady visitors or residents who wish to enjoy an anteprandial refresher on the Leach to descry from the top of the cliff three or four men in their birthday suits racing on the beach, and thus bo compelled to forego their constitutional. Not that I wish to see our rising professionals deprived of their healthy recreation, especially as they are daring swimmers, but let me suggest clothing a little moie textile than tattco. " Cleauliness is next to godliness," if I remember Vere Foster rightly, but still I do not lite to see it paraded quite so ostentatiously before the public gaze. Finally, let me caution any bather (" clothed and in his right mind " or not) against venturing too far beyond the breakers. It would be a serious blow to the community if all that legal lore and mathematical talent were digested by an unappreciative but voracious shark, which, after recovery from its indigestible banquet, would doubtless go pegging out claims in the bay, defending the case against all comers. " There be laud sharks and water sharks," See. —l am, &c, Landsman.