SURPRISE ADDRESS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 98, 28 April 1931, Page 8

SURPRISE ADDRESS

ANZAC DAY GOLF

PROPRIETY QUESTIONED

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHUBCH, 27th April. - Some remarks . made by Archbi&hop Julius in the course of a Short address at tho Anzac Day service held at- the Shirley golf links on Saturday were not at all tho kind of remarks he had been expected to make. They wevo 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 \inks.'

There were no competitions at Shir'ey on Saturday, friendly games only Being played. ■ Tho Anzac Day service at Shirley was inaugurated about'three years ago, tho first one being taken by Bishop West-Watson;