“THIS CULT OF SPORT/' “ This cult of sport is ho new phenomenon. The anciefit Greeks dated their, calendar bv the four yearly celebrations of the Olympic games, which is very much as though we reckoned our years by the visits of .the Australians, instead of by the years of the Christian era. And ; it is ominously true that asthe Roman Empire declined the cult of ‘sport’ became more exaggerated, ' until the creed of. ‘Bread and circuses,’ which may be translated into the modern terms of ’doles and games,’ furnished the epitah of the greatest empire that existed in the world until that of our own. Absit omen!”—Mr A. G. Gardiner in the ‘‘Star” of London.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1931, Page 2
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