SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.
Commenting on Bishop Sprott's -recent reference to the " present increasingly nonChristian observance of Sundays " a writer in a Southern paper says:—" The Bishop of Wellington has no doubt noticed the Sunday morning trains take out golfers to. the Hutt Valley, the harbour ferry steamers laden with picnickers, and the patient fishermen and fishorboys alone the wharves. ■ It takes a very severe south erly to damp the ardour of the Sunday fishers Ihey have a zeal which seems marvellous to those who do not yearn to cast a bait for the voracious! kahawai and I the omnivorous, barracouta. Some have the comfort of bottles of beer, and thev all appear happy when the sun puts a sparkle on the tide that flows and ebbs. Some' half-ashamed to be on view, are in dis' tinctly Sunday raiment, and seem to fish furtively, but the majority have no more regard for conventions than the care-free 'bottle-oh!' They have suits which have served for many fishings—clothes on which the tar of stringers and bits of bait and blood of the victims have dried. Goine" home in the middle of the day with their spoils, they cheerfully pass the people re-turning"-from church."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15047, 17 July 1912, Page 10
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199SUNDAY OBSERVANCE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15047, 17 July 1912, Page 10
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