GRATITUDE EXPRESSED
WITNESSES OF JEHOVAH AUCKLAND AUTHORITIES’ STAND (Per Press Association).
AUCKLAND. December 1
Gratitude to the Mayor (Eir Ernest Davis) and the Superintendent of Police (Mr J. Cummings) for their kindly courtesy and simple common sense was expressed by Mr R. T. Reid, the principal speaker at a religious gathering held in the Town Hall concert chamber to-night by Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Approximately 300 people were present and proceedings were entirely orderly. A police constable was stationed at the hack of the hall throughout.
Mr Reid said that although Jehovah’s Witnesses were at present under a cloud, they regarded it as much as the' Children of Israel regarded the Pillar of Cloud which guided them out of Egypt. He wished to contradict a report that religious bodies in New Zealand had entered objections to the teachings or Jehovah’s Witnesses. He had been informed that no representations had been made by any Protestant body in the Dominion.
It was announced that further weekly meetings would be held in another rail.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 44, 2 December 1940, Page 3
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