MORE COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE NEW ZEALAND SUNDAY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 81, 4 January 1950, Page 8

MORE COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE NEW ZEALAND SUNDAY

Throughout New Zealand picture theatres and dance halls are closed to the public on Sunday. Parks; are closed to sport. Many people and societies object to this. Many others heartily approve. Just entering the fray are the new settlers’ associations springing up throughout the country. They don’t like the New Zealand Sunday. In the Hutt Valley, a settlers’ representative, Mr S. N. Shepherd, told a welfare immigration committee that many settlers could not adjust themselves to local conditions because there was nothing to do on Sundays.

No Home Life They had no home-life to take part in, and, at the most, spent one hour at church, he said. Because of their loneliness on the important day, a number were returning to Britain, convinced that they could never be happy here. It was almost impossible to find a place in New Zealand where Sunday dancing was approved, he said. Public opinion was so \ strongly against it that there was no possibility of Sunday dancing, added the chariman, Mr K. Watts. \ The Mayor of Upper Hutt, Mr Nicolaus, was the only member of the committee to favour Sunday dancing. His council placed no taboo on their parks for feunday games, he said. “What is dancing but a game?” he asked. “What harm is there in it to real religion? In this country we live six days as we please and the seventh hypocritically.”

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