SUNDAY RECREATION:.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 157, 4 June 1929, Page 2

SUNDAY RECREATION:.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Your correspondent, “R.I.P.V letter of Thursday last has borne fruit, as all Sunday football is now prohibited on the Park Read grounds This, sir, is an injustice. After one s spiritual duty on the Sabbath is over, recreation, which the Railway, the P. and T. Department- and others are denied during the week, should, in this instance, be allowed. It is a peculiar thing that, when the working mar. endeavours to enjoy himself, he is immediately condemned, whilst the sins of his more leisured brother pass by unnoticed. Golf, tennis, etc., are certainly played in silence, but why ‘‘fiesr of one and fish of another?” If a distinction is to be made, all Sunday recreation should cease. “All.” Isay The City Fathers should enforce this.

A private playing ground. ‘•R.I.P.” suggests, would not elirnin ate the good-natured barracking w’nic! takes place. It had been intended t make a collection at these games, ar. the proceeds handed over, to be attributed to any deserving cause o: fund.—l am, etc.,

„ , PAIR PLAY Palmerston North. June 3rd, 1929.