Serious Sport

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 8, 31 July 1930, Page 7

Serious Sport

BUT WORK TAKEN LIGHTLY,

LUXURY WITH DEPRESSION

AUC ELAND. July 30

“Wo Jive in a remarkable age,” said Air W. J. Holdsworth, chairman of the Auckland Klee trie Bower Board and president of the Auckland Creditman’s Ciul>, at the annual meeting of tin' club. “Changes of production methods and in the industrial system generally, have been seen, yet still in local government wo are using the same old methods us wo were -10 or 00 years ago. The use of now methods would make for a tremendous saving."

Individual members of the community, he said, were not guiltless in this respect. Was it not a fact that the standard of living and of lu.\ -y in living, which was possibly permissible in times of prosperity, was bung continued to-day when conditions were different? “No one who witnessed the last two Rugby matches at Eden Park could help being thrilled with the display and with the physical fitness of the men and the way they strove to uphold the honours of their country,’’ said Mr Holdsworth, “but what can bo said of the people who, in midwinter and in a time of trade depression, waited in the queue all night to secure tickets at fancy prices to witness the match? 1 wonder if a number of university scholarships were offered how many would wait all night to secure "them. (Laughter). ] suppose outside a few Scots and youths the queue would be very small. (Renewed laughter). The country that took its sports seriously and its work lightly was idling up a heap of trouble, he concluded.