WANING HOME LIFE

Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1933, Page 9

WANING HOME LIFE

PAYING FOR AMUSEMENT. BISHOP’S APPEAL TO WOMEN. Hastings, August 30. A waning of readiness on the part of young people to-day to enjoy home life was deplored by Bishop Williams, Bishop of Waiapu, when addressing a gathering of women at Napier this afternoon. Young people, he said, seemed to have lost the capacity for home life, and in order to be amused they relied upon paying something to go somewhere. He was distressed to sec how little home life was evident to-day. No matter what the class' of society, home life seemed almost to have disappeared. “Last year New Zealanders paid £75,000 in amusement tax, and the year before they paid £105,000,” said Bishop Williams. “Cannot you women do something to encourage your young people to devise ways and means of amusing themselves less expensively?” Home life should not be solely a matter of amusement, Religion should play a definite part in the lives of the people. Next to religion was discipline, particularly in the mattei - of amusement. The family should be taught to keep itself under control.