GOOD FRIDAY.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11493, 28 January 1903, Page 5

GOOD FRIDAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PHESS. Sir, —Acs the present holiday season. i« practically over, and we are once more settling down to work, it is but natural to (suppose that holiday-makers and holiday sports caterers are turning their thraght-j to the Easter holidays.

This must be my excuse for asking you so early in the year to allow nu> space i« your columns once more to protest against a ri'cunvnoe of the cycling ."ports in Lancaster Park on Good Friday.

I addrtes you, Mr Editor, instead of the authorities controlling the sports, becai;-.-e in past, years protests addressed to th-'in by the'late. Archdeacon CTio'mondeley, on behalf of the clergy, of the Archdeaconry of Christchurch, were, fruitier, with ihe t-x----ception of once eliciting the exeuso that a> engagements had been entered into they wfcr« unable to abandon the spoils. 1 am in hopes, by making my protect thus early, to make tliis t-xcuse uwele*.* for thLs year.

The support my protect received from thf Press and let lens received from many public men, together with resolutions from two public bodies in the city, exposing very strongly the necessity for stopping what is a .scandal and insult to Christian -sentiment, all encourage me to hope that anything beyond a verbal protest will be unnecessary. Your report of the sports last, year would, I should imagine, kill any entertainment but one which designedly \-atervd for the very lowest stratum of amusement-seeker.i. but t have not forgotten that by my letter of March 24th, 1902, I am pledged, if verbal protests fail, to take other steps, and that pledge 1 am prepared to carry out if occasion arises.—Yours, etc., HAROLD E. ENSOR. The Vicarage, Phillipstown, January Bth.