STRONG CRITICISM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 38, 24 January 1936, Page 8

STRONG CRITICISM.

Screening of Pictures On Aiizac Day. “DISGUSTING AND GALLING,” SAYS RETURNED SOLDIER Dunedin, January 22. “Not only is it disgusting but also galling to one born and bred in Dunedin add who has had the privilege of serving with the Otago Regiment to iind (be City Council attempting to shoot holes in a piece of legis ation that the people of the Dominion thought dignified and appropriate in 1020,” declared one of several returned soldiers when commenting on the council’s decision to permit the screening of picture programmes on Anzac Day evening. “There is" too much hyprocisy in connection with Anzac Day, ’ said the serviceman. Either the community should see that the Act is observed as passed or else it should i o deleted from the Statute Book. To julopt hall-way measures of holiday celebrations on the nearest Sunday or turning- the occasion into a secular day by permitting picture programmes to be shown is neither a sincere tribute to the 1(5,GOO who fell in the‘war nor is it a proper observance of the law.”