SUNDAY GOLF ON THE MUNICIPAL LINKS
Sir,—l notice in your issue 'if the 12th instant an article re tho above, and mentioning a petition to be presented to the City Council. For months after the links were opened golf was played on them on Sundays. According to tho Press reports, the Mayor itnd certain councillors have set themselves to stop it, chielly at the instance of the rulers of the I'rrsbyirrian Orphanage. At their i=-.-«■! ■:i al the end. of June the council decided to prosecute anyone playing on Sundays. At a meeting in July it was admitted by the council that the by-laws were inoperative so far as golf on the Town tiolt was concerned. Bavin a found that bluff did not carry them through, those, gentlemen have authorised a 'lew by-law to be made prohibiting golf on the Town Belt on Sundays. This is a direct attack on tho. liberties of tho citizens, and shouk 1 . lie resented when next election time comes round. Hundreds of'people enjoyed their oxercise on (lie links on Sundays, and r.hr.v surely should not b" debarred therefrom on account of the Presbyterian Orphanage, alone, with about fifty inhabitants. —I am, etc., A LOVER OF LIBERTY. August 10.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2854, 19 August 1916, Page 7
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204SUNDAY GOLF ON THE MUNICIPAL LINKS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2854, 19 August 1916, Page 7
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