TAKING PLEASURE LIGHTLY

Evening Star, Issue 15882, 14 August 1915, Page 6

TAKING PLEASURE LIGHTLY

AND MAKING NO WAR VISIONCOMMENT BY CHIEF JUSTICE. [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, August 14. In admitting two men named Cashman and Dempster to probation for two years for stealing goods from the -wharf, the •Chief Justice said ; Working men ought to be saving every penny, instead of which they were drinking and smoking, going to pictures, and so on. I don’t know what’s coming to this country. I see young men loafing about the streets, thinking of nothing but their own pleasures, going into hotels in the middle of a great war—the greatest war the world has ever seen. The, time will come when we will have to undergo very great privations, and you are making no provision for them. Even bees and wasps make provision for their offspring and you make, no provision at all. You working men are no worse than other people.

A private wire received this afternoon states that J. G. "Williamson’s production of ‘The Man Who Stayed-at Home' has created a great sensation in Wellington. Lord and Lady Liveirpool, the Hon. Mr Massey, and Lady Ward, and all the members of the National Ministry, witnessed last night’s performance. Great enthusiasm was witnessed over the performance.