USING LEISURE.
" We all know from our own experience that when we have been working hard for a time and we go for a holiday, the first day or two we do not want to do anything; it is good enough that we are not working. But as we get rested, as the reaction passes away, we want more and more to occupy ourselves whether mentally or physically. I am certain that regular leisure of the kind I mention will demand some more active occupation than just sitting about and resting. Are we to occupy it'by going to more football matches and more cinemas? They may he very good things to fill np our spasmodic leisure. "I believe that on our ability to solve this problem of the use , of leisure, more perhaps than on anything else, is going to depend the • future of this country and of this civilisation. I think it was Ber1 trand Russell who said : ' To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilisation.' I would add that to he unable to fill it t intelligently may well be its final failure.'' — Mr Oliver Stanley, British , Msjier. - - -
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 127, 15 June 1937, Page 4
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