OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS
WAR & SPORT (To the Editor.) Sir — a your Monday’s edition I notice toe following by your football reporter; “Matches are very poorly attended by the public." To my way of thinking this makes very pleasant reading. What right have we in this country giving up our time to sport or watching sport? There should be no such thing as football, races, golf. etc. now. Why not present each footballer, at least, with a spade and set him to work digging up Memorial Park, ready for vegetable growing in the spring? I hope that by this coming spring New Zealand will have a good many thousands of Britain’s 500.000 orphans here and so vegetables will be badly needed to feed those children. 1 sometimes wonder if we in this country realise what poor old England is going through at present. Evon if New Zealand would take 25.000 of these orphans, what a help it would be to her in her hour of trouble and what a help to this country in year-; to come. Let us have done with all forms of sport for the time being,—Yours, etc, K. G. L. Masterton, June 4.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 June 1940, Page 6
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