The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, February 26, 1915. MR POYNTON’S LECTURE.
If we were to judge Foxton’s intellectuality by the attendance at the lecture delivered by Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., on Thursday night, then we should be reluctantly compelled to come to the conclusion that it is below the average. An opportunity was afforded the public to listen to a subject which would lift them to a higher realm of thought and life far removed from sordid commercialism which latter, uniortunatly, seems to be the objective of the majority of us. Had it been a blood-letting exhibition, with Mr Poynton as referee, such sensationalism would have crowded out our largest public building at half-a-guinea a seat. Other sensational bills-of-fare would have drawn equally as well, but to assemble together to hear something of the great forces and phenomena of nature awaiting elucidation by the mind of man, for the uplifting and betterment of the human race, fails to draw more than a dozen adults in the community ! Foxton is not, of course, singular in this respect as the drift towards commercialism is apparant throughout the Dominion.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1515, 26 February 1916, Page 2
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186The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, February 26, 1915. MR POYNTON’S LECTURE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1515, 26 February 1916, Page 2
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