ANZAC DAY
CLOSE HOLIDAY IN FUTURE. N.S.W. GOVERNMENT’S PLAN. -A Bv Telegraph.—Press .Assn.—Copyright. (Received September 12,. 0.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, September 11. A deputation representing the churches, the patriotic associations, and the women’s organisations asked the Chief Secretary. Mr O. W. Oakes, to legislate to secure the stricter observation of Anzac Day, and to place it on the same footing as Good 1 Friday and Christmas Day by closing the hotels and prohibiting races. The speakers complained that under existing conditions the day was desecrated, and made a day of pleasure and excess, instead of a day of sacred memories, by wholesale drinking and unlimited sport. Mr Oakes said the Government intended to act along the lines suggested, including the issue of a proclamation forbidding the opening of Hotels rnd the holding of race meetings.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11932, 12 September 1924, Page 7
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134ANZAC DAY New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11932, 12 September 1924, Page 7
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