CHINESE GATHERING THE MISSIONARY PENNY.
TO THE EDITOB. Siß-7-Snnday trading is, of course, in this Christian land abolished. The shops are religiously closed, tho windows darkoned, and to all appearance tho law is obeyed to tho vory letter. Unfortunately, it is not so, the ever-ready son of the Flowery Land, who, especially in the fruit retailing line, has got such a footing in Wellington and perhaps other cities, keeps his shop-door unlookod and quietly plies a Sunday trade. Tho thing is done in snoh a way that really little harm seems in it, but on looking carefully in the matter there is indeed a great deal of harm done. Tho customers which tho Chinese fruit-dealers ohiefiy attonds to are ohildron of all agos going to Sundaynchool. It is customary to give children a penny for the missionary box, but I am afraid that the temptation to purchase a pennyworth of fruit, sweets, or, worse still, cigarettes, proves too much for some youngsters, while these shops are open on the quiet. The money given by the parents to foster goodness in many a caso produces the reverse, and pavos tho way to many a bad practice. Would it not be better to stop this nefarious Sunday trading, and remove this stumbling block for good. I am, &c, A.H.K.
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Evening Post, Volume XLI, Issue 138, 13 June 1891, Page 3
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