THE PURITAN SABBATH.
NO BOAT, TRAM, OR TRAIN.
SYDNEY, June 13. ! A deputation, representing the Evangelical Council, asked Mr. Flowers (Act-ing-Chief Secretary of New South Wales) to enforce the law regarding the closing of fruit and soft drink shops on Sundays. One speaker suggested that the Government ought to go the whole way and stop all trains, trams, and boats on Sundays. _ Mr. Flowers, in promising considered tion of the matter by Cabinet, said he personally favoured tie old-fashioned Sunday, but the idea of a Puritan Sunday could not he entertained to-day. The reaction which would follow the making of such a law would be so great that there was no knowing where it would stop. They must, he urged, be moderate. He saw no j harm in providing facilities for people ' visiting seaside resorts and obtaining reasonable refreshments. A bill providing I that refreshment Toorns within a proclaimed area could remain open during a limited number of hours on Sundays was being prepared.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 140, 14 June 1911, Page 5
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