A dean down under.

South Australia is a progressive state. It has a Premier who seems to be an intelligent intellectual. He heads a Labour government, which therefore has some accord with the central Commonwealth Government of Mr. Gough Whitlam. Our premier, Mr. Don Dunstan, known as "Donnie," is a lawyer who was able to devote an hour's television programme to poetry and his delight in it, and he recited it too. It was a great success. Recently he intervened in the Maslins Beach episode. For many years Maslins Beach has been the haunt of illegal nude sun and sea bathing. The police had in general turned a blind eye or at most made an arrest when they had time from their other more arduous duties. The beach is about 20 miles (32 km) south of Adelaide and, like the whole long coastline, is relatively devoid of people. Then during a lull in the news the local paper started a story on Maslins. The police had to take some action and arrested a few offenders. Then a stipendiary magistrate, taking his duties seriously, announced that he would punish to the maximum the law allowed and gaol for three months those guilty of this heinous offence. Our Donni estepped in and the law was changed almost overnight. Nude disporting at Maslins became legal, and this was the first beach in Australia to be so licensed. Now there is also another. After the brouhaha in the paper, cars blocked the road on the clifftop overlooking Maslins, apparently filled with people sporting binoculars and telescopes, and light aeroplanes, of which there are many, used the beach as a reporting-in station. The controllers of Adelaide airport are reputed to have played the game by allowing these daring pilots to come in to land at 500 feet (152 m). It was all less than a nine days wonder, though householders in the area became anxious that the value of their properties might fall. They obviously had little confidence that there might be enough voyeurs in the country to raise the asking price.