SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE.
OPENING CELEBRATIONS.
BISHOPS ASK FOR BOYCOTT.
The Anglican bishops of New South Wales have called on all professing Christians to boycott the Sydney Harbour Bridge celebrations, which arc fixed to commence 011 March 19.
Dr. Crotty, Bishop of Bathurst, in a pastoral, which was read in all •the churches in the diocese on February 14, recommended " a definite and deliberate boycott by all professing Christians of the bridge opening celebrations," and described the decision to hold the bridge opening in Holy Week as " scandalous, and a reproach to any community." He. stated that responsibility for tho desecration of Holy Week could justly be laid at the door o( a vast section of indifferent Christians.
Bishop Moyes. of Armidale, joining with tho other bishops, asked his people to " abstain in Holy Week from all the pleasures and festivities arranged in their towns and districts, or those in connection with the bridge opening or the show."
The same, or similar requests, were made by all the Anglican bishops in their Lenten pastorals.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21115, 24 February 1932, Page 10
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173SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21115, 24 February 1932, Page 10
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