TURN NUDIST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 220, 17 September 1938, Page 12

TURN NUDIST.

VICAR'S ADVICE.

PARISHIONERS DIVIDED.

"MRS. GRUNDY STILL. ALIVE."

(Special.—By Air Mail.)

LONDON, August 27.

In the midst of parishioners fiercely divided over his view of what is good for them, the Rev. Alfred T. Harre remains unmoved. "Take up nudam' he urges the . people of Kenley, Surrey, in his current magazine. One half of his parish thinks he's right; the other half thinks that its 6(i-year-old outspoken vicar has gone too far. "False Modesty." "Through fake modesty we do not sufficiently let the light and air get to our bodies," he writes. "It ought surely to be possible in the open air and under suitable conditions of privacy for the body to have light and air and let the breezes play upon it. "Mrs. Grundy, dear old soul, is still alive, and so is Mr. Grundy. In fact, I think Mr. Grundy is the narrower, more active and short-sighted of the two." Mr. Harre, widower for two years and cheery, despite health that is not too good, said: Raised Eyebrows. "I have had words of encouragement from many friend*. "I expect that some of my parishioners raised tlu ir eyebrows and looked down their noses when they read my »rtiele, but that is only to be expected. "I cannot see anything that is not in keeping with the conduct of a good Christian in sitting in a secluded garden with a book and letting the sun and air get to the body."