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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 492, 27 April 1909, Page 5

''- 1 - : V/.. ".V ■' ■■■. I.;' ,; ;y ' TO THE ELECTORS, WELLINGTON ' CITY. • ' \\ •' ONE 'of your greatest;'assets;'.'is: the Quiet : Sunday !i. its value .to home and social life, is immense.' The compulsory cessation of all: work;save that whiohiis declared necessary by. the Stato is one of the great., features' of British life everywhere. This custom has been violated in our City by the. sanctionin'g of ■Sunday Entertainments for' private gain. .< Experience in England, Canada; and Australia, as well W in Foreign Lands, proves: that, once the Sunday Entertainer- is allowed Sunday' custom crumbles; others demand ; that the privilege 'of ■ money-Making ; on:. Sunday,"granted to tho Entertainers shall be extended' to them, and Sunday workers] become . ail ever-increasing army. . : ... ; .-,y "Wellington should be sensible enough to accept, the experience of pur kinsmen beyond tliti' seas,.- and should stand. 'in with 1 Auckland; • Christchurch, and Dunedih, in prohibiting the Speculative-.Entertainer.- 1 The .following question hns: been; submitted to-, all Candidates for 1 ■ civic ' honours, b}% the Council of the Evangeli.,'cal ChurchesDo you 1 favour the ■ proposal, ".That, the City ' Council ■< should', prohibit- all Sunday -Entertainments in . halls- imdciv -its jurisdiction, : save such as : are; held' for diS-. tiuctly ■ charitable,; purposes The: purpose of this , proposal is to .prohibit .all . Sunday: Eiitertainment for private gain. It is heartily endorsed by Archbisliop ' Redwood, Bishop Wallis, the heaas of all. the Protestant Churches; i the V Unitarian . Minister,' and-.'.the. f Jewish Rabbi, and 'by representativeleaders' of the Labour party. :., . . ■, . ' '." For information of the electors,riive. publish, the folowing results: of our. -inquiry....'': y. ',' •In favour of the Council of Churches' • proposal Messrs. . ..V-v. Aston. , '' Atkinson. 1 , : ; Ballingcr. Bennett. : - Carey.: - Chapman. Cohen: ■ ...Cooper. . ■'..' Frost - '- •?,. ''Higginbottom., Hume." .' . Jensen. .' ; Luke. : Honaghan,. .- M'Laron. . . M'Kenzio, L., M'Kenzie, R. Rcardon. Shirtcliifc. - Smith. ' Trevor. • Against the Council of Churches ' proposal: : r-Messrs.''iv;,■'. ' Casey. , Devine! ■ • Dykes, i ' Fletcher.- -' jFullford. V -Hamptoni Morrah. ~ . -Noot;' Z 1 Seat on. No replies'received:—Messrs. • -v . . .:■ Carmichael.- '.v - Fitzgerald. . :' Hiijdmarsh/, I". : : ■" V v': M ■. \ ' MAYORAL CANDIDATES. Mr.-Bolton and tho.Hdh. J. Rigg endorse the Council's proposal, \ • 1 ; -MB.'FISHER SAYS:- : Sir.—l havo: to acknowledge receipt, of your circular letter tD Mayoral candidates, ~' , - , ' This.' is' my. answer:—That.-1 .regret-I'can-not: see my, way "to- comply' with* your : request ■ that the.Town Hall and' all other halls under the Council's jurisdiction, should be closed' on: Sundays, except... for .entertainments held v for charitable purposes; As il!|' have: already publicly,. 1. do :not ngreerivith music-hall -anil. biograph entertainments : onj a Sunday,': but I have' no : objection.' to' goodi'music of a, sacred : and - elevating character. '■ ' ■ The * . programmes, should be submitted to the Council, winch should, I presume, consult the City Organist, aiid there: must ■be a stipulation that every advertisement of Sunday Concerts should stato that they arc absolutely free. > • '■' I:>am as. much: agaiiist the Continental Sun-day-as your Council, but let mc point out that if you succecd' in olosing the 'Town Hall you. will not get: five per cent. ,"of the .Sundav' Con-cert-goers into .the- Churches,- whilst wou will force hundreds of people to spend: their time less profitably than- in listening to good ; music. -■■ ■- ' ■; ,v .; ;■ :■ .; I want to see a good, clean, healthy; vigorous Christian community, to have to disbelieve that your proposal is a step in' the right direction.' •-. ' - Yours faiiiifully, . " (Signed) F. M..8, FISHER.: , MR. NEWMAN SAYS':Dear Sir,—l find that Parliament, when passing the Municipal Corporation Act, inserted a special clausd allowing Sundav Concerts, under safeguards to bo provided by. the: City Council. Under this Act the .Town Hall • was built ,bv the citizens, all of whom are taxed for it. 'it is the common property of of sections, for tho use of all. . . •'• or ' 5; ea r s Past bunds] subsidised out bf the rates, . have played music in. our . parks, on buiidays. I cannot, therefore, see wiiy'jnusio ploycd on Sundays in the Toivn iLall—tho People.s Drawing-room—as well as in the open air in parks. 'I am not .prepared to shut tho people out of their own Town Hall,on'-Sundays. 1 Im am prepared to, maintain' the present bylaw; and to resist any attempt to .'widen'it . Every . programme is submitted to 1 the City Organist, and approved by the Town Clorlc, all unsuitable items being, struck out. .You 'speak-of'quiet homes, aiid tho> "Cultivation of ideals.' Unfortunately there are many people who have no quiet homes, and their sole cbanco of "cultivating ideals"-is listening: to musio in their own Town, Hall. I am'as strongly, opposed ns you- are to tho introduction of a Continental Sunday, and in' private have always done my best to avoid Sunday work, and shall always do so. ' '.A.K.NEWMAN. ~ Mr. Wilford rofused to reply.. : . ARTHUR. DEWDNEY, Hon. Secretary Council of Churches. 7567:

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