LARRIKINISM.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 229, 20 June 1908, Page 7

LARRIKINISM.

< -—I—e—'1 —e—' A SEVERE INDICTMENT. ; (BI TELEGRAPH. —SPECIAL' COItItKSrONDENT.) ," ' ' ' ' Cliristchuroh, June 19. The Rev. Pi H. Pritchctt, Vicar of Governor's Bay, a. popular resort on the shores of Lyttelton Harbour, pens a sovero indiot"ment of tlie larrikiriism of Cliristchurch holi-day-makers, as . seen at.-the Bay.' "Somo rear? . ofpersonal, observation and. contact. : with "thousands of young people out loliday-making has,'? he says, "filled mo oore and more with a; sense of the dangerous tato into which _the present generation of outhful society is fast drifting. There is such a .disregard of tho rights of property. Common honesty concerning fruit and flowers seems to' bo rapidly becoming a lost virtue, so' that; a public-holiday means to most of . tho . residents .of the Bay the necessity of keepmg within, sight'of one's own gato and premises.'•' •No.tliingv'seems sacred'' to somo. Tho church'organ had at last'to. bo protected with a- padlock/ holiday-makers considered'it common property, and Were not merely content to play hymn tunes, but indulged in ' danco' ' music, as was ,not infroquontjy heard: .from -tho ■ Vicarage. l .Books were tumbled about, and initials scribbled in chalk"- and pencil over the' vestry table, so now on most public holidays the church is locked upl and the. key taken over to the Vicarage.