SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.
The narrow and bigoted attitude displayed by a councillor at a recent meeting of the Whangarei Borough Council should be emphatically opposed. "Sunday is set aside for the churches and not for amusement," said this councillor. May I be allowed to ask who lias set Sunday aside for this purpose? Surely we have left behind for ever those dark days when the clergy governed the country, when people were compelled to go to church and pray with less sincerity than vigour. The councillor displays his hand when he states that the churches will be empty if permission is granted to hold an entertainment. He would compel people to attend church, or, if that is impossible, he would prevent them going elsewhere. The same narrow and bigoted attitude is in. evidence in other ways, as, for example, broadcasting. Church services and melancholy music dominate the Sunday programmes, and no alternative it> offered. A. E. KNIGHT.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 289, 7 December 1933, Page 27
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