Suday-Citizens

NZ Truth, Issue 873, 19 August 1922, Page 1

Suday-Citizens

The' Victoria' "University College Council hafe precipitated a storm of protest against its decision to allow the sfn3as.ts.fb Treep the Sa>"b3. t£ .nay holy by playing tennis on the College esul-ts." ~xzro 2C3t tQ liurl a.lieavy missae at the Council is the Sunday School "Union, which a week yago car-> ried an- exhaustive resolution, hinting that the grave and reverend seigneurs comprising "-the College Council are a lot of scribes and 'Pharisees who should be Tjomllerised and bathed and fitted out from stem to stern with a fresh set of principles, as well disinfected withlysoL Also, that their morals should be chiropractieated and their hair cut, and finally that their bodies should be thrown from the College, balcony to the 4ogs unto seventy times seven. Inter alia, ' it lias deposed Sir Robert Stout (who was one of the principal advocates of Sunday recreation) from the position he has so long held as Chief Dominion Wowser and proposes to send him to the Prisons Board to reflect upon his own sins. Incidentally the Union executive claims to represent 103 schools, 1100. teachers and 10,156 scholars. But does it represent v them ? Not by a jugful m this matter, and this journal is prepared to bet a copy of "Meditations Among the Tombs" that a plebiscite of the scholars would .show a mournful majority m favor of' whanging the balls about a bit on -Sunday afternoons. •'''."'