SWINGS ON SUNDAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19289, 30 March 1926, Page 15

SWINGS ON SUNDAY.

PROPOSAL AT ONEHUNGA. BOROUGH COUNCIL'S REFUSAL. A discussion on the question of Sunday amusements took place at the meeting of the Onehunga Borough Council last evening. Mr. Coldicutt moved that the swings and other apparatus in Jellicoe Park bo opened on Sundays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mr. Kemp seconded the motion, which was also supported by Mr. Speight. Mr. Stoupo opposed the principle of opening the swings on Sundays, mentioning the example of Sir Arthur Myers, who had stipulated that the playing equipment in Myers Park should not be opened on Sundays, although he was not an adherent of the Christian religion. He thought it would set a bad example to tho children, for it was not only infants who would play there, but also grownup children. They should be encouraged to go to Sunday school. Messrs. Hipwell and Campling opposed the resolution as a needless violation of the Sabbath, and Mr. Mcintosh said lie thought it would be just the same as opening up the school grounds on Sundays for the children to play in. He was sure Mr. Speight, as a former chairman of the School Committee, would oppose that idea.

Mr. Green emphasised the necessity for guarding against any proposal that would entail work on Sundays on the part of an attendant.

The Mayor, Mr. J. E. Cowell, opposed the introducing of the thin end of tho wedge, which, he said, would result in the Continental Sunday. He urged that as representatives of the people they should guard what was a national institution, the sanctity of the Sabbath. The motion was defeated.