SUNDAY GAMES IN PUBLIC
ARCHDEACON' SPEAKS OUT. Arehdeacon F. W\ Chattel ton, of Rotorua, expressed intense disappointment at the action of the Tourist Department in announcing that games would be allowed in the Government Gardens on Sundays. . “I regard such action with dismay, he said° “and I consider that it is not in the best interests of the people. Who can tell what effect it will have on the rising generation? I feel that this subservience of morals to mere £.s.d. will result in a crash, as has been ’ the case in Chicago. People of deep faith, and the churches themselves, should have been consulted before such action was taken, in order that moral and spiritual progress might proceed with economic advance. Organised Sunday sports would react on the young mind-**
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 February 1930, Page 5
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