CARNIVALS ANDLOTTERIES

Evening Star, Issue 15928, 7 October 1915, Page 7

CARNIVALS ANDLOTTERIES

OUTSPOKEN CONDEMNATION. [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, October 6. A very outspoken condemnation of patriotic carnivals and lotteries was contained in the presidential address of the Rev. E. Kirkwood to the Baptist Union of New Zealand to-night. “ The country has been flooded,” he said, “with all sorts of patriotic appeals and money-raising efforts. In each of the southern centres great frivolities and pageants have been organised and carried through in the name of patriotism, and for the sake of charity. Auckland awaits her turn. In addition to great attractive baits to the cupidity of the pleasure-lov-ing section of tho community, there were in -the city of Wellington roulette tables used in the Town Hall, and under the blind eyes of our legislators the laws of the land were flagrantly broken night after night.” (A Voice:, “.-Shame.”) After referring to the failure of the protests of the Auckland clergy, the speakerconcluded : “And so the city is to see the carnival in all its flimsy tawdiness of pageant and show, while unwilling purses might be unlocked to contribute with the hope of winning a prize of great material value, and this is the year of our Lord, 1915, and Christian Auckland. Is it not also tho hour and power of the hosts of darkness?”