GOLFERS SCOLDED

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 180, 28 April 1931, Page 8

GOLFERS SCOLDED

Play on Anzac Day CRITICAL ARCHBISHOP “Balm to Consciences” Dominion Special Service. Christchurch, April 27. Some remarks made by Archbishop Julius in the course of a short address at the Anzac Day service held at the Shirley golf links on Saturday were not at all the kind of remarks he had been expected to make. They were distinctly critical in tone, and many members resented them, though a few were inclined to think that they had been deserved. The archbishop took members to task for playing golf on Anzac Day, and suggested that the service was only so much balm to their consciences. He himself had been unwilling to take the service, he said. He had been like Balaam’s ass In the Bible that did not want to go. All golf courses except those that are on public reserves are open for play on Anzac Day, but the Christchurch club is the only one in Christchurch that holds a service at the links. There were no competitions at Shirley on Saturday, friendly games only being played. The Anzac Day service at Shirley was inaugurated about three years ago, the first one being taken by Bishop West-Watson. “I think Archbishop Julius had a twinkle in his eye some of the time,” said one member who attended the service at the Shirley links.