THE CHURCH AND PEACE
METHODIST CONFERENCE URGES STUDY PRAISE FOR MR JORDAN’S STAND AT GENEVA tPBSSS ASSOCIATION TBLBGBAM.) WELLINGTON, February 23. A resolution expressing appreciation of the utterances of the High Commissioner (Mr W. J. Jordan) in support of peace at Geneva was carried by the Methodist Conference when the committee’s report on peace was adopted. J . . The committee recommended church members to study the subject of peace in relation to Christianity, and presented lists of both non-pacifist and pacifist literature suitable for this PU The~effect of the shorter week on the amount of trade done by hotels was discussed, and a resolution was carried urging further restriction of hotel bar hours. It was suggested that the Government should be asked to apply the rive-day week to bars, but delegates said that such a restriction would lead to a late night tor bars, and the suggestion was rejected. The conference also adopted a resolution urging the Government to appoint a Royal Commission to investigate the whole problem of criminal abortion.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22335, 24 February 1938, Page 16
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