"A RATIONAL SUNDAY."
Sir,—l cull from your columns this morning the following:—"A week-end excursion to Paremata was held by the members of tho Deep-Sea Angling Club yesterday, and notwithstanding ..the. inclement.,weather, . good sport was had- l'he catch, comprised. 328 terakihi, .30V cod, two schna'pper, two conger eels, , and a large shark. _ excursionists spoke the steamer Kapiti, which was sheltering, and reported to her the loss of tho i'enguin." . •' When 1 read that, aft-er reading tho heartrending account of the terrible marine disaster, it struck me as a, strange incongruity. While the thrill of the disasterwas convulsing ovepy feeling heart," while anxious eyes were, gazing out on the ocean waiting for the sea to give up its _ dead, here was a body of men calmly fishing in cold blood in the vicinity of tho awful catastrophe; and having "good sport." -It is many a day since I read anything moro callous. If this is ono of the fruits of what some are pleased to style ''a rational Sunday," surely it shows that the .'effect of it is debasing in 1 the.extreme, and? the sooner wo recover our reason the bettor. —I am, .■ "'vHUMAN FEELING.' February 17. , • ■ ,
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 437, 20 February 1909, Page 7
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195"A RATIONAL SUNDAY." Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 437, 20 February 1909, Page 7
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