SUNDAY TRADING.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 212, 8 September 1927, Page 9

SUNDAY TRADING.

MORE SUPERVISION URGED.

DUNEDIN PRESBYTERY'S VIEWS. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, Wednesday. The Dunedin Presbytery, at the suggestion of its public questions committee, resolved that in view of the amount of Sunday trading that was being carried' on the police should be invited to make a close inquiry and to watch over shops which were doing business on Sundays. The Rev. Dr. E. .N. Merrington said it was felt that the inroads of commercialism into Sundays were increasing. Recently a deputation from the Council of Christian Congregations had waited on the superintendent of police and asked if it were possible to regulate or suppress the traffic in motor fuel and sundries on Sunday. The superintendent pointed out that everything connected with the travelling of the public was exempted. The motor garages took the place of the old livery stables. The question of shops had been raised and the superintendent had explained that 1 the law allowed provision shops to provide food and soft drinks to be con- ' sumed on the premises, but not for tak- ' ing away from the shop, i The Rev. Hector McLean: Who is f breaking the law—the shop folksi or the , people"carrying away the goods. Dr. Merrington: The shops.