Introduction
The Letters to the Editor include one questioning surfboard registration by quoting from a well known Manly newspaper (most likely The Manly Daily) that warned against an attack on bikinis under a sight-seeing regulation.

Dave Espey, from Victoria, disputes the magazine's favourable account of Phillip Island (the worst place on earth for surf) and reports a new discovery near Bells Beach.
"Clump Rocks", described as a left Fairy Bower, is relatively unknown, as yet only about six of us know about it.

A Northbridge (Sydney) reader enquires about John Kelly's Hydroplane design as featured in the June issue (actually March), wondering if the board can be kicked out like a hot-dog board with the extra distance behind the skeg (fin).

The snippets are mostly advertisements and one photograph of Nat Young at Valla Beach, on the mid-North coast of NSW.

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Recently I opened a well known Manly newspaper and a surfing notice caught my eye.
I quote:
"Surfboards are smeared with the suspicion of 'menace' - not regarded as a natural evolution from body surfing as previously was body surfing from splashing.
A committee representative of councils controlling beaches will consider a proposal to impose an annual fee of $1/15/-, 10/- for registration, $1/5/- third party insurance.
There is a fuddy-duddy aspect of this proposition on which the minister-in-control should take council.
Already councils have power sufficient to allay panic - to set aside special areas and penalise  transgressors.
Fuddy-duddism should be restrained from further violation of the liberty of the subject.
Otherwise we might expect an attack on bikinis under a sight-seeing regulation by councils" - unquote.
Should all surfers have to be called menaces by these one or two "fuddy-duddys" and should this fee to be imposed be a little out of the reach of the younger board riders who do not work?
I think the registration fee is also too high.
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Nat Young crouches through a beaut hollow at Valla. Photograph by Alby Falzon.

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