SOCIAL PECULIARITY OF FEILDING.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 80, 2 October 1893, Page 2

SOCIAL PECULIARITY OF FEILDING.

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sin, — In your publication of the 27th ultimo I notice, with pleasure, a letter by " Reform " on the important subject of the unsocial nature of Feilding residents, and its extreme " clickism." Beforin is not alone in his opinion on the question, for I think most young men who reside here, and who have been previously accustomed to home life and surrounded by general society, would endorse every word he lias said. The so-called earnest temperance workers who work with such perseverance and inflexibility of purpose in their estimable cause will have to reconcile themselves with the fact that ere they abolish the drink traffic, the hotels, and their many inducements and attractions, something will have to be done by them in the way of making provision for young men who seek recreation and amusement after the business hours are over. Man is naturally a sociable being, and anything pertaining to isolation he does not readily appreciate. Therefore something should be attempted to enable him to get recreation and enjoyment, without having to seek it in places where his moral and intellectual nature must inevitably grow coarse. While under more favourable conditions, he would aspire to things more noble, resort to games more manly, and in every way develops into a more desirable citizen. In large towns the places of amusement, self-culture, and improvement, are both varied and numerous, while in a small place such as Feilding, young men are at a disadvantage in their efforts to cultivate that which is ennobling and proper. Whence the necessity of extended kindness from the older residents here, towards those who have cast in their lot with the rest, and who are desirous of proving 1 themselves worthy the confidence and friendship of those by whom they are surrounded. Hoping to see further correspondence 011 this important topic. I am, etc., Intishesteix Feilding, .September T.Otli, I<SU3.