MIDGET GOLF

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 134, 4 December 1930, Page 10

MIDGET GOLF

SUNDAY PLAY APPROVED

DECISION AT TAKAPUNA

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, 3r^ December. "Worded that way, the decision to approve of Sunday play is the surest way to kill it," said Mr. Collins, when tlie matter of Sunday play on midget golf links was discussed by the Takapuna Borough Council. Mr. B. C. Hart introduced the matter by saying that he understood that a police prosecution for Sunday playing was pending against the owners of one of the courses in the borough. In view of that it was desirable that the council should record its official opinion upon the matter. Mr. Guiniven said that public adminis-' trators had to recognise that the modern world was not living under a Mosaic dispensation. So long as Sunday mornings were left intact for churches, he saw no reason why courses should not be allowed to open on Sunday afternoons. He moved that Sunday play be approved between the hours of 2 p.m. and 6 p.m., but that no charge for the use of the courses be permitted. The opinion that this was a matter that concerned only those who were running midget links and their patrons was expressed by the Mayor (Mr. Williamson). It was definite, however,, that section 309 of the Municipal Corporations Act gave the council jurisdiction over the courses, although they were within the boundaries of private property. Mr. Guiniven's motion was carried by 5 votes to 4.