SUNDAY LEISURE.
Sir,-May I enter a reasonable plea on behalf of many returning soldiers, and-as I think the police will endorse -in the interest of Law and Order generally, It concerns a means of fruitfully occupying the minds and time of people in general, but youths in particular on Sundays. According to an English church dignatory not more 6 per cent. of the population there any longer attends church or chapel. That is to say, 94 per cent. no longer are church-goers. « The figures in New Zealand are probably about the same. I think it is an axiom that in a professedly Democratic country the peuple shall be able to spend their weekly well-earned holiday as they choose-so long as in so doing they do not harm anyone else. I am ‘sure the Churches-especially considering that church-goers, represent such a small minority--would not be so dog-in-the-mangerish as to refuse the 94 per cent. the right to have, for example, the theatres opened and decentclass films shown at such times (afternoons and 8.20 p.m. onward) as would not clash with the 6 per cent.’s meetings. (I am sure the 94 per cent. would be teady to show this courtesy in response
to equal courtesy on the part of the 6 per cent.). Thus the returning soldiers and that overwhelming majority of people, who, exercising their Democratic rights, do not choose to be chapel-attenders, can have somewhere to go to occupy their time profitably and innocently. Good films can scarcely become sinful simply for
being shown on Sunday.
RETURNED
SOLDIER
(Keri Keri).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 303, 13 April 1945, Page 7
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260SUNDAY LEISURE. New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 303, 13 April 1945, Page 7
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