LONDON’S SUNDAY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4667, 27 February 1924, Page 4

LONDON’S SUNDAY.

MB. MASSEY’S TMBU'J’E. "Though 1 dance myself—l suppose at my age I ought to be getting beyond it—and, although I have bfeen. a racehorse owner in New Zealand, I am deadly opposed Lo dancing and horse racing on Sundays,” said Mi- Massey to a representative of the “Evening News” on the eve of his departure from England.

“1 have thoroughly enjoyed watching Londoners on Sunday,” said Mi’ Massey. “They keep Sunday in a way ' I admire Tremendously. They are or - derly, and there is no levity. So long as I live I shall remember the way Armistice Sunday -was Irept. It was an object-lesson to everyone. T never saw anything like it. The huge, orderly crowfis, the quietude, the entire absence of loud voices, the feeling behind it all—it was something to oe felt rather than seen, something characteristic of the British race the world over. I do not think Londoners will ever adopt the Continental Sabbath, and I am glad of it. True, London is a gay city, but Londoners know how to keen the Sabbath.” Mr Massey recalled how, when he ■went to London in 1916, he and his colleagues, at the invitatior of the Minister of Food, enjoyed a tenpenny lunch at the Food Ministry restaurant. “That tenpenny meal of mine, in those dark wartime days, was to. me," he said, “a proof of the common-' sense of London, whose optimism.; reached throughout the whole Empire.. London, during the war, was in some respects London nt its best,”