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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13235, 21 July 1906, Page 5 (Supplement)

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/ "-■:'. ;-♦- -:— G*£* [-POWELL'S VIEWS /"%& • to loafers. ,-jii- °y^ m : *,n-Poweix has sent ■£•'■'•£''%%"'''■' ' ;; i '-?\ l correspondent •who ; '$.<; %° ■ Irtain modern teniJSoJtf&- *%"' ~,.* sport:—: "Mo. , Guards, Whitehall, S.W., ■ '■' ■ "April 24. "Sir,ln reply to your questions: "1. I do not, in th© abstract, see any harm in young men going to look on.at football matches on Saturday afternoons. But I do see great harm to themselves and to the nation in their paying other people to play their games for them, and in going in big drinking parties to have a gamble on a match On days when they should! be working. - • .'..." 2. I am '-':'. the .; last \ to;; object';; to good healthy English games played for the good of the players, but I do not like to gee us gradually "becoming a nation of onlookers at games like!the Romans : had become immediately before that Empire fell to pieces. •'As a nation we now spend more time m looking on at races, '•/! football, :' cricket,;. etc., and we have more unemployed ; and loafers in every walk of life, than any other country, . Though■ I am ; myself- veiiy fond of sport, ■ in almost- every."formal quite' realise that;; in many quarters, iu/jr a6l *<nks of society, in Great Britain, the j*jl tee of sport ami games is Exaggerated; it is carried to an ' „_.„ „~i lo expense of solid v -EVITT; > /• (Sigued) , F ree on Applicator, I ™***" .ejjhone No. 1330. ' .