SUNDAY CRICKET.

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 September 1920, Page 6

SUNDAY CRICKET.

“I believe there is far more wanton mischief and damage done on Sunday than all the rest of the days put together, and I believe that an innocent game of cricket on a summer afternoon 'would go a long way to icounfyerajct fch£t.” Thus writes the Rev. A. Cuming, vicar of Addlestone, with reference to Sunday cricket for boys. “If Sunday cricket were in vogue on the recreation ground at Addlestone I should certainly not tell my Sundayschool children that they were not to play,” he adds. The vicar mentions that one correspondent bids him “go down on his knees and ask God to forgive him. “Another scribe sends me a tract en titled “The Devil’s Mission of Amusement.” The third writer, who sent 291 words on a postcard, asked what the vicar \vould do were “he suddenly to meet his Creator.” COST OF SHIPBUILDING. Sir Alfred Booth, head of the Canard Line, testifying before a British industrial court recently, said that a steamer which before the war cost £320,000 was torpedoed during the war, £605,000 insurance being recovered. The vessel, he added, was being replaced at a cost of .£950,000. 96,340 LUNATICS. On January Ist last there were in the public and private lunatic asylums of Britain 96,340 patients, including 3739 who were classed as ex-service patients, said Major Baird, Undersecretary, Home Office, in the House of Commons.