SUNLIGHT LEAGUE

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20244, 23 May 1931, Page 4

SUNLIGHT LEAGUE

NEW ZEALAND BRANCH. '•' ~ _ * .'-'s ■. ' u CONGESTIONS SMOWT .•■dak.;;,;' '^f§-' : '' - Pleasure.*irt^th® Samlight.: ia expressed'in -a tary of the Sunlight. ,received by ofjClipiatcliurch, sec^taigrAOf, Zealand League. The copy of the editorial February issue of the Leigh's journal,? "Sunlight," written , by fir:.-0. %. Saleeby, chairman of the executive t of., the League, entitled New ' Zealand Sunrise." Th* editorial reack-; "From summer sunlight, good > npwa comes to brighten; this wuitfcr of onr discontent; news to confirm our'b&ief ■ that.this work is worth doing, that we have a living truth to tell and that, for tj»e telling there are hearing ears.; "The foreword 'to our last numbfer was called 'Our English and waa based on thorn real beginnings in the royal parks which nad their roots* in our .deputation ta/tjie First Commissioner of Works in 1959. That English sunrise is now" followed *by what we might quite properly call our New Zealand sunrise—trie formation of the Sunlight League in New. Zealand, as our firstborn child. Its -objects, fcs set forth in itev-.initial • statement, are _our bbjects:> itt hopes | have been inspired by the recosd ot the Sunlight League' and. only its internal structure, .doubtless, approprK ate to the Dominion,' shows-any van®-, tion from the- parental' type. In thttcountry a surely hope to number the - Minister 1 fot) Health and the Minister for Education amongst its active officials, as.' is thft; fortunate case of our friends in. New Zealand. Indeed,' - the' names and authority of those who are gathered together there to spread the light, art v of the first order and we cannot doubt that great things will "be achieved. "New Zealand possesses in it* popny lation a higher proportion' of ths British stock than is round: anywhere else in the Empire. , It "also possesses the highest proportion of the Scottish' stock. Some of us had occasion dur?j ing the war to try to. serve young New Zealanders, by ins-truction or other-. vise, and vividly remember the tjrtic. happily uniting the Qualities of Apollo and Hercules, to which those magnificent youngsters conformed. . They, were, of course, ticked m&tt; but they, had been there to pick. Alas, for "the inntrasts between such descendants of Scotland and those rickety and tuberculosis victims of urban smoke and slums, who are to be found in Edinburgh. Glasgow, and Dundee to-day. t"There need be none, henceforth of ; what we have called the diseases. of darkness. They can and; should and, must be made unknown, alike in old: Edinburgh s and in new Dnnedin. We send - salutations of hope and confid-, once, not entirely untinged .with parental pride, to the „ Sunlight ■ League, so far away in space, so near in spirit and purpose;- and we take .hope and inwniration from its foundation to ourselves, as we approach t3ie ' completion of the first seven yearß cf* our own existence. , At,least -we are, - nearly seven years nearer "the 'day'. when it shall be said: "The people that walked in darkness'have seen a great lisjht, and they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.' "