" SUNDAY SECULARISATION" IN AUCKLAND.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 337, 23 May 1885, Page 3

" S UN D AY SECULARISATION" IN AUCKLAND.

I am pleased bo observe that the throwing 1 open of our Museum and Public Library ou Sunday afternoons Ims, up to the present time been attended with the most gratifying results, so far, that is, as the attendance at both institutions goes. I learn on the best authority that the visitors to the Museum are twice as numerous on Sundays os on any other day of the week, while the attendance at the Public Library on the " Sawbath " is also very large, especially in the evening-. And I have yet to learn that any of the evils foretold by the opponents of " .Sunday secularisation." as they were pleased to term the

movement, have come about. Let us be thankful for the common sense that recognised the right of the hard-worked artizan and his family to seek recreation ou the only day in the week they can call their own. Talking about the Library, I hear that it is Sir George Grey's intention to furnish a room in the new institution with a large and varied collection of Maori curios. This collection, added to Sir George's gift of his magnificent library, is deserving of grateful recognition at the hands of the Auckland public. " Three cheers for Sir George Grey 1" — and let them be ringing ones this time.