MORE HUMBUG
'Sir,—Professor Algie has just shown us some of the hypocrisy of- our national attitude toward jrambling. There is yet another form of hypocrisy e.g.* our attitude toward the Sabbath. A Chinese is fined for working in his garden on a Sunday, .but a white.man may weed or cut his lawn on the same day. The rich may play golf, but the children of the poor may not use the swings and slides in Victoria. Park, because the City Council says God will be angry with them. Also, no one may make (i charge for an entertainment, but it costs you a shilling to visit the zoo on Sunday afternoon. About 12 months ago > there was a great to-do about a hiking train on Sunday. Good people said it was wicked, but, all the same; the trams have been running on Sunday' for 30 years, and even Presbyterians and Baptists sometimes use them! Also, 011 a fine' Sunday in the summer thousands of people go in ferry boats and little steamers to the islands and beaches. This has. been going on for many years; and yet the very good seem to know nothing about it. W T e are the lineal descendants of those people who, 2000 years ago, "strained at gnats and swallowed camels." Anti-humbug.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21597, 15 September 1933, Page 15
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