SUNDAY MIDGET GOLF.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 286, 3 December 1930, Page 11

SUNDAY MIDGET GOLF.

PERMITTED IN TAKAPUNA. OUTSIDE CHDKCH HOURS. ; "Worded. that'way, the decision to approve of ' Sunday play is the surest way to kill it," said Mr. J. Collins, when the matter of Sunday play on midget golf links was discussed by the Takapuna Borough Council. Mr. B. 0. Hart introduced the matter by saying that he understood that, a police prosecution for Sunday playing was pending against the owners of one of the courses in the borough. In view of that, it wae desirable that the council should record its official opinion upon the matter. Mr. Guiniven said that public administrators had to recognise that the modern world! was not living under the Mosaic dispensation. So long ae Sunday mornings were left intact for the churches, he saw no reason why the courses should not be allowed to open on Sunday afternoons. He moved that Sunday play be approved between the hours of 2 p.m. and 6 p.m., but that no charge for the use of the courses be permitted. Tho opinion that this, was a matter that concerned only those who were running midget links, and their patrons,. was expressed by 1 the Mayor, Mr. J. W. Williamson. It was definite, however, that section 309 of the Municipal Corporations Act, gave the council jurisdiction over the courses, although they were within the boundaries of private motion, was carried by 5 votes to 4. v '■