"And the gobble-uns 'll get you, if you don't watch out."

NZ Truth, Issue 1200, 29 November 1928, Page 1

"And the gobble-uns 'll get you, if you don't watch out."

"Sunday," says the law, "is -a day of rest for all things, small boys' stomachs included. Warm the days may be, alluring a strawberry ice may sound, but if a youngster so far forgets himself as to buy a -penny ice cream at a travelling stall, take it six yards away and eat it, the man who has assisted m the crime by 1 furnishing the light refreshments is liable to a fine. Buying sweets at a shop is just as bad, if not worse." . " ' « , ' , „-,.,. n -i. i >-. » j * x t -n *.V New Zealanders have become broad-minded about many things. The Sunday golfer and Sunday tennis player are smiled— positively beamed— upon, and the, Sunday surfer gets past. But the small boy with a craving for ice cream on Sunday is regarded as a menace. His elders, and sometimes betters, are at work during the week, and he is likewise cribbed, cabinned, confined at a school desk. "N.Z. Truth" can think of a large number of things 'which our police force could be better engaged on than waiting at ice-cream stalls to see whether some urchin departs from the /■■ statfd to lick his ice. '.■"-;