SUNDAYS IN LONDON.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16348, 4 February 1924, Page 10

SUNDAYS IN LONDON.

LONDON. Dec. 17.—Tim Evening News to-night publishes an interview with Mr. Massey "which has as it.s subject not politics, not Empire, but Sunday in London. "Although I dance myself (I suppose at my age I ought to be getting beyond that 3), and although 1 have been a racehorse owner, in New Zealand, I am deadly opposed to dancing' and horse-, racing on Sundays," said Mr. Massey. Tho Premier was emphasising how he had enjoyed watching Londoners on Sundays. "Londoners," he went on, "keep Sunday in a. way which I admire tremendously. They are orderly, and there is no levity. So long as I live 1 shall remember the way .Armistice Sunday Mas kept. It wast an objecti-losson lo everyone. I never saw anything like it. The huge orderly crowds, . the quietude, the entire- absence of loud voices, the feeling behind it all; it was something characteristic of the, British race the' world over. "I don't think Londoners wilt oirer adopt the 'Continental Sabbath,' and I am glad of it. Time, London is a gay city. But Londoners do know how to keop thei Sabbath." Mi'. Massey recalled how when, first he came to London—in ,1916 —at the invitation of the Food Minister ho and his overseas colleagues enjoyed a tenpenny lunch at the Food Ministry restaurant in New Bridge street. "That feiipenny meal of mine,' ho said, "in- thore dark Wartime days, was somehow :o niy. a proof of the commonseiise of London, whoso optimism reacted throughout the whole Empire. Loudon during the war was' in solne respect's London at its best."—Press correspondent,