GARDENING ON SUNDAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 230, 29 September 1933, Page 6

GARDENING ON SUNDAY.

Your correspondent '"Real Gardener" draws attention to a very interesting and important matter, especially here in Auckland, when he asks the question, "Could not a law be passed to stop Sunday gardening?" I am dazzled with the prospect of a community that has "No Sunday Gardening" for its motto, and instead everyone walking solemnly off to Divine worship. I have met people "who have said with a sincerity that deceived everybody, and themselves, that "they could worship God as effectively in the garden as they or others could in a church."' I venture to state that it is easier for a eamel to go through the eye of a literal needle as for such a measure to be placed on the Statute Book of this country. I am inclined to doubt the genuineness, of the noin de plume "Real Gardener." for the gardejiers of Auckland are too real to permit even "Real Gardener" to fork among their choicest bulbs. Why are people so unkind in this time of depression as to say such things? One reads such a lot of ill-advised and unkind schemes in the correspondence columns of the daily papers, that if put into effect would make so many, more unhappy. It is as impossible to compel people to go to church on Sunday as to stop others from doing their turn in the garden on that sacred day. I venture to say that no member of Parliament would dare to vote in favour of such a measure —much less attempt to introduce' it. JOX QUIL.