Line 4.0.0 At several of these beaches, young

Line 4.0.1 men are considering whether they

Line 4.0.2 will again take a chance and wear

Line 4.0.3 their topless togs in the approaching

Line 4.0.4 bathing season.

Line 4.0.5 City stores, prepared for a big de

Line 4.0.6 mand for swimming trunks this sum

Line 4.0.7 mer, have, in some cases, sent repre

Line 4.0.8 sentatives to discuss with individual

Line 4.0.9 councillors of seaside municipalities

Line 4.0.10 the possibility of influencing their

Line 4.0.11 councils to allow bathers to wear their

Line 4.0.12 goods.

Line 4.0.13 Councillors replied, however, that

Line 4.0.14 much negotiation and striving pre

Line 4.0.15 ceded the adoption of uniform by-laws

Line 4.0.16 by municipalities, and they were not

Line 4.0.17 prepared to sponsor alterations without

Line 4.0.18 a clear indication from a large majority

Line 4.0.19 of their ratepayers.

Line 4.0.20 While regular frequenters of beach

Line 4.0.21 resorts close to Adelaide, where topless

Line 4.0.22 bathers are forbidden, watch the por

Line 4.0.23 tents of a growing storm about the

Line 4.0.24 regulations, a representative of one of

Line 4.0.25 the few South Australian localities

Line 4.0.26 where men may bare their chests gives

Line 4.0.27 his views.

Line 4.0.28 He is Cr. N. R. Cross, of Moana Ward

Line 4.0.29 in the Noarlunga District Council, and

Line 4.0.30 this is what he says:

Line 4.0.31 'Behaviour on Moana Beach last

Line 4.0.32 summer was exemplary. Far from

Line 4.0.33 losing popularity, Moana gained so

Line 4.0.34 much that beaches round us were de

Line 4.0.35 prived of a big percentage of their

Line 4.0.36 adherents. There is nothing wrong

Line 4.0.37 with seeing a fine, upstanding young

Line 4.0.38 fellow walking along with his chest

Line 4.0.39 bare, getting the best of God's good

Line 4.0.40 sun.

Line 4.0.41 'I do not object to them coming into

Line 4.0.42 the kiosk and eating lunch in their top

Line 4.0.43 less bathers.

Line 4.0.44 'If all councils don't fall into line,

Line 4.0.45 they will have to face being called a

Line 4.0.46 lot of old Mother Grundys.

Line 4.0.47 'If they do insist upon retaining

Line 4.0.48 their antiquated bylaws, then I pro

Line 4.0.49 test against the practise of dosing the

Line 4.0.50 blind eye when someone does offend.

Line 4.0.51 If at Moana we make a success of such

Line 4.0.52 liberty to surfers, then other councils

Line 4.0.53 should follow suit, or else take action

Line 4.0.54 under their own bylaws and risk losing

Line 4.0.55 half their crowds.'

Line 4.0.56 Inquiries among Glenelg and Henley

Line 4.0.57 councillors indicate that there is a

Line 4.0.58 very remote possibility of a move

Line 4.0.59 being made to change the bylaws and

Line 4.0.60 permit bare-chested bathing. The

Line 4.0.61 Henley Council has not launched a