DANGERS OF LEISURE
PART TO BE PLAYED BY CHURCH (United Press Association.) Auckland, October 20. The dangers presented by the increase of leisure given by the recent legislation were responsible for a motion carried at the Auckland Synod of the Anglican Church suggesting that the church should work to see that the people used their leisure rightly. It was stated that the 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, realizing that 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 rise when the transition from the work state to the leisure state is an accomplished fact.
(2) That the performance of this duty demands the immediate attention of both the 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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Southland Times, Issue 23026, 21 October 1936, Page 4
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