PLANNED LEISURE
Sir,—ln your Friday’s issue occur two paragraphs which, taken together, are rather disturbing. In the first it is recorded that the Deputy-Mayor of Timaru considers that town planning should include the planning of citizens’ leisure. In the other it is suggested that war memorials should take the form of community centres. The community centre movement is an excellent one in many ways. If, however, it provides machinery for the planning of leisure, it will destroy leisure, the essence of which is that it is freely at the disposal of the possessor. Community centres provide many necessary facilities in country districts but in centralising leisure activities they paralyse freedom of choice. It is necessarv that they be organised with scrupulous regard for freedom.—Yours, etc., J. E. ERIKSON. Sumner, February 8, 1946.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24797, 11 February 1946, Page 6
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