WHEN IN ROME

NZ Truth, Issue 1194, 18 October 1928, Page 8

WHEN IN ROME

Wail From Dunedin /SkyJPilots

(From "N.Z. ■ Truth's" rDunedin; Rep.)' 1 As though New Zealand' was- noil already ! over - run with. :' ''the\ ; punctilious prattle of altrujstw ! kill-joys, a certain section of Dunr .;/■; edin's church people has strenuous"- :• ly condemned the Railway Departv ment for running an excursion r train, last Sunday from Dunedln ■• to Lawrence. ' * Cik the assumption that Sunday ex£ cursions will be "injuring the moral interests of the community," the piloting influence of one church has passed a resolution m .deprecation of the department's enterprise. Lawrence is situated some 50 miles from the city, ' and at this time of year is /famous for its phenomenal display of spring flowers. Some 26 acres of daffodils there form a veritable sea of ! bloom. And it is this — a masterpiece of the Great Artist's own-hand, paint-, ed on the verdant canvas of< Nature herself— to which the pettifogging black-coaters have taken exception! : ' ■ Mother Grundy's corns might not get much respect from some jazz-halls and their cocktailing flappers, but when she strikes her familiar whimpering over something which is giving the city-toiler a chance to get a breath of Nature's tonic, the Old Lady is barking, once again, up the wrong tree. As the poet says: "One is nearer God's heart m a garden, than anywhere else on earth." .