“PROPAGANDA!”

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1063, 29 August 1930, Page 13

“PROPAGANDA!”

RATIONALISTS’ PETITION TO CITY COUNCIL QUESTION OF SUNDAY PLAY ‘■‘lt is a well-known thing that n£itations of this kind are started by bodies which desire to bring their propaganda under the public notice,” commented Cr. G. W. Hutchison at last evening’s meeting of the City Council, when a petition of the Rationalist Association was under consideration. The petition asked that council nlay apparatus be made available to children on Sundays. The Barks Committee. which had given the question consideration, recommended that the prayer of the petition be declined. I understand, but am open to correction,” continued Cr. Hutchison, “that this association is purely an anti-religious body. . . Cr. T. Bloodworth: No, not at all. I The Deputy-Mayor, Mr. A. J. Entrlean: You are not far wrong. “It is the usual thing for these bodies to find some cause they believe will meet with popular favour, then spread their propaganda,” said Cr. Hutchison. "I say now that if the Rationalist Association tries to use this council as a means of propaganda, then I will not stand for it as far us i am concerned.” added Cr. Hutchison. (Hear, hear.) i Cr. F. NN Bartram. who moved an amendment that the association’s request be granted, drew attention to the fact that Cr. J. Donald, one of the oppon’ents of the petition, owned a motor launch. ua “i cannot believe the councillor not use that launch for his own pleasure on Sundays,” said Cr. Bartram. A FLASH BATHING SUIT I "If I were a'small child, and ’I went i s«Uhe V «To^ e a a^,t -I wSm Iviu meeting the other day would wish lum a speedy vovaqe te'r') alld JJavy Jones’s locker. (Lnug'h"Am I to believe he never takes his famtly for pleasure jaunts <m SuY ~ I' 1 ca . n lma sine a small urchin oLt inU S J Y' sed "S Him drive S'f^ 1 Ski WJth 111 H family, would \ bei ° he the man w lio won l let me play.’ I agree that Sun- } Jay should be a day of rest—b it hnw do you define the term. The view of the council is narrow and puritanical." hear. ' * r ° m the UiL llery: Hear, nnvT, t> - put - y * M “ > ' or: 1 can 't have an> interjections from the gallerv. This meeting is conducted on fiarilum nLarv h» e „ S ‘i icforrufrted there vou’d be asked to leave, Cr. Bartram caused some astonishment by referring to the committee’s recommendations as “anti-social, antL ca\ l ” Stian , and Just a iiffie hypocritiMr. Entricap: You have no right to charge any member of the council with hypocrisy; you should know it is unparliamentary. You must withdraw. Cr. Bartram (with amused reluctance): Oh, well. I’ll do that. Cr. T. Bloodworth. who supported Cr. Bartram, spoke on the lines of his colleague. The Sabbath was made for man not man for the Sabbath, he argued. \Ve should be George V. and not Queen Anne. r ’, ? ona,lJ /pointed out that he did not object to children playing on Sunfla.v: R was the necessary employment of labour that he disliked. “A great deal has been made by the association over a very little thing ” said Cr. Grey Campbell. “The children in that district are not going to suffer much loss if the few appliances are closed. The whole thing is this, is it not up to the council to preserve the standards which have so well served I®, Pioneering days of this country?” Ihe committee’s recommendation was upheld, Cr. Bartram and Cr. Bloodworth being the only dissentients.