USE OF LEISURE
HARD work never killed a sound, healthy man, but the wrong use of leisure may ruin him physically and spiritually. The crux of the whole problem, as I see it, is whether our leisure time is well or ill-spent. Leisure, broadly speaking, is as essential as sleep, but ill-spent leisure can be as insidious as dry rot; it can ultimately ruin the community. It is the handmaiden of social vices like drinking, gambling and immorality. Leisure which leads to active participation in these vices can definitely be called ill-spent. They are in every sense of the term wasteful —wasteful in money, in health and in time.—Professor E. P. Cathcart.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 35, 9 October 1946, Page 4
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112USE OF LEISURE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 35, 9 October 1946, Page 4
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