SPORT AND RECREATION.
The Cost of Living Commission is disingenuous in its treatment of the questions of sport and recreation. It says: "Tf sometimes, as alleged, the ( workers' means tjre too much trenched. upon for sport and recreation, ' neither the State nor the Press is blarneys in the matter. The State | encouragement of the racecourse and the endless columns of sporting news •in the daily newspapers, may be indexes of popular opinion, but do not tend to teach economy of outlay in the cost of living.'" The Commission .might, with equal show of reason, argue that the newspapers are responj sible for the extravagance in dress, because they advertise the bargains to be obtained at spring sales, or that the Government encourages cxtrnva- ; gance by running excursion trains to the seaside or elsewhere. If the I workers are going, to be extravagent, i 'and have the means nt their disposal j for practising extravagance, no act of omission or ■commission on the part of j tlie Press 'or the B?ilte will restrain thorn. i ...
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10716, 10 September 1912, Page 4
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174SPORT AND RECREATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10716, 10 September 1912, Page 4
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