"SINS OF AUCKLAND"

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 1 September 1928, Page 10

"SINS OF AUCKLAND"

PROCESSION THROUGH CITY | (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evenino Post.") • AUCKLAND, This Day. Public attention to "The damning sins of Auckland" was drawn by the Salvation. Army last night. The. demonstration took the form of a mourning march through crowded Queen street. Tho procession was led by Commissioner J. Hay. It was a good-hum-oured crowd on the whole, and the attitude of the crowd was a tribute of respect to the Salvation Army. Probably only a small minority approved of this form of religious appeal, but the great majority were automatically respectful. A huge crowd filled Queen street and blocked the traffic, but it was a sporting crowd. At the front of the procession was the familiar red and blue flag; then came the higher staff officers, and then three parties of draped women. The first party wore black costumes; next camo a smaller band of women in scarlet costumes, and then another group in white. Several banners j wero carried, one bearing the words: "Wo Mourn for tho Sins of AuckTlio crowd was quiet and curious, but it was not demonstrative, and thcro was no enthusiasm. Tho march lasted for twenty-five minutes.