SUNDAY PICTURES.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 27 January 1917, Page 5

SUNDAY PICTURES.

Sir. —I have been waiting, trusting abler pen than mine would take up the matter of the Council closing the Sunday pictures. If one can judge by the report of the meeting of the Council there seems to have been little or no discussion on the question. We know that there are very few picture companies allowed the privilege of showing on Sunday in the Dominion, but I used to think our Council were more broad-minded than in other centres, and allowed such to be the case here, but judging by the course adopted the thing seems to have been dealt with according to the individual minds of the Council and not as representatives of the people. I am writing this from a worker’s view, who cannot afford a motor-car for pleasure on a Sunday, or who has not a farm to spend all Sunday superintending the management fcr the next week, or who cannot afford to take cut a license and buy tackle and go fishing on Sunday, or who cannot afford to join the shooting club and spend Sunday on the rifle range, or cannot afford to buy clubs and go golfing on Sunday, or hasn’t a business requiring time on Sunday to attend to, or cannot afford to have a parlour set aside to invite friends along for a game of crib or poker on Sunday. Yet, sir, these things happen every Sunday in the year, and nothing is done or said about it; yet, because the only pleasure the wmrker can afford doesn’t fit in with the narrow minds of our councillors, they must be closed. Of course, there may be more than meets the eye in the resolution passed by the Council. if so, they should fake the opportunity to let us know what the individual minds of our councillors are, and of what metal they are formed, so as to guide us at next election. In conclusion, 1 think the council would better employ their time discussing the ways and means of extending the electric light further afield, and thus supplement the amount already received to almost double. They would be able to use the engine already installed at a cost of about £IOOO, and which is lying idle and producing nothing. Trusting that other and abler pens will take up this matter for the worker. I am, etc.— WORKER.