DANGERS OF LEISURE
CHURCH’S RESPONSIBILITY DISCUSSION BY SYNOD (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The dangers presented by the in ; crease of leisure given by recent legislation were responsible for a motion carried at the Auckland synod suggesting that the church should work to see that people used their leisure rightly. It was stated that public houses and billiard saloons had already claimed some of the people’s new spare time. The vicar of Whangarei, the Rev. H. T. Steele, moved “That this synod, realising we are entering on a new age of leisure, affirms (1) that the pressing duty of the church to-day is to prepare to meet the dangers that will arise when the transition from a work state to a leisure state is an accomplished fact, and (2) that the performance of this duty demands the immediate attention of both clerical and lay members of the church.” The Rev. W. Averill said that it was the duty of Christian people to encourage young people to turn their leisure. to cultural, religious, and aesthetic ends. The motion was carried.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19151, 21 October 1936, Page 4
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