CARNIVALS AND LOTTERIES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2586, 7 October 1915, Page 6

CARNIVALS AND LOTTERIES

J'/ ..' . ' 6 . . OUTSPOKEN -CONDEMNATION. IBi Telezrarli—Pr««!> AW™int!on. > ' Auckland, October 6. A very outspoken condemnation of patriotic carnivals and lotteries was contained in' the presidential address of the Rev. Kirwood to the Baptist Union of New Zealand to-night.

The country lias been flooded, he said with all sorts of patriotic appeals and money-raising efforts. In each,of the' southern centres great - frivolities and pageants have been organised and car-, ried through in the name of patriotism and for the .sake of charity Auckland awaits.her turn. Li addition to great attractivo baits to the cupidity of the pleasure-loving section of the community there were in tho' City of "Wellington roulette tables -used in tho Town Hall, and tinder the blind eyes of our legislators. . The laws of tho land were flagrantly, broken night afteri night.

A voice: "Shame.". , After'referring to the failure of the protests of the Auckland clergy, tlio: speaker concluded: .''And so the city ib to see a carnival in all its flimsy tawilri-. nees of pageant and' show, while unwilling purses must be unlocked to contribute with the hopo'of winning a prize of great material value, and this is the year of our Lord, 1915, and in Christian Auckland' is it not also the hour and power of the hosts,of darkness?"