BANNING OF ART UNIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1926, Page 15

BANNING OF ART UNIONS.

i (Td the Editor.) ' gir__i n ' view of the fact that art uriidn's' are to he barred as being a means! of inducing, gatnbling among the people, why in the name df eoffiffidn BgfiSe Is the sale df surprise packets allowed as a means of aiding a Christian organisation ? The hi" prizes in both eases are the inducement to a hxxfy one doeS not purchase' an envelope hopirig to, receive a penny .ddii* and very few look &i the light it is supp6sed to be Jiewed— iri that every shilling paid helps the: YW C A The type I saw outside a certain shop ih Queen Street last week did not 100k a? if * he cause that lacks assistance' 5 had anything to do with theif eagethess to get packets before the supt ,l r - rafi out. Ih most.clothing tdfies itt Auckland at pfeserit raflles ard the.dfdef Of the day, %™ 0 frdto this source going to >riy bricks td build a home whefe our yc-Ung women mar he protected and lectdred on thd

' ' . ; (T6 the Editor.) -' '^j r __What numfcugs some people are;. Tf is not many nights ago we read that rhiftistefs of varioiia non-ednformist SSes thanked the fit, H6ti. ; , the Premief for promising to suppress in future permission ,to>h6ld"rift, unions,: which; they corisidefMi, Was a, bftd form of bamblifig ftnd /demoralising. Now I want td is the difference between aftj, att Union and Celling 1/ surprisepacketsr As faf as I cah see .they are both a game itWm and gamble*, yet adhereilW to L ver y churches whose ministers cona?t nnions W6fe Vfify bliSy 8h Friday last Jn selhlig h su?prlse, packets; ■nT hid df thef Y-W.O.A. It is n.Bt consistent arid shows they d* not hold,to flipir nrinciples when it is. convenient to ignore them. AndthSr thing I would lf_e td ask 3Sfr. Goates; if tTf "iinidris, Why does he S6t veto the am, ftc, _ - - : J