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Otago Witness, Issue 4033, 30 June 1931, Page 6

“You know it pays to be honest and own up,” said Mr E. D. Alosley, S.AL, to a boy who appeared in the Christchurch Alagistrate’s Court on a charge of cycling without a light. He pleaded not guilty, but it was later ascertained that the charge should have been cycling on the footpath. “ Did you think you could get away with it, lad? ” asked Air Alosley. “Oh, I don’t know,” was the reply. “ You can’t get away with much here,” said Air Alosley. “ No, I don’t think so,” the boy “Discipline was strict in the early days—even on Sundays,” said Air Robert Billens in the course of reminiscences of the ’6o’s at Lyttelton (reports the Press). “On Sundays we went to Sunday school at 9 a.m., and when that was finished we were marched to church. The sermons were not short —the service did not finish till after 1 o’clock—and it was quite the usual thing for many of the congregation to go to sleep. When that was ended the afternoon Sunday school began. Even in the evening, if it were possible, we were sent to phurch again. Things arc different nowadays.”