SUNDAY ARRIVAL

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 1 September 1928, Page 10

SUNDAY ARRIVAL

MR. ARCHER'S OPINION "INSULT TO COMMUNITY" (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post,"^ CHBISTCHURCH, This Day. • Tho Rev. D. Gardner Miller, addressing tho Mayor, read the following statement as tho opinion of tho Ministers' Association: —"Wo protest very strongly against the action of tho Tasrnan flyers in arriving here on Sunday. Apart altogether from tho fact that this sudden change in programme up- . sets all the carefully inado arrangements for the reception hero on Monday, with a consequent detrimental effect on the unemployment fund, it is not in tho best interests of the Dominion that tho sanctity of the day; of rest should bo set at naught." • ' Replying, the Mayor said: "I would. • like to say quite definitely that I find myself in complete agreement with the protest that has been voiced. As Mayor, I was neither consulted nor informed . of the change of programme. I only discovered the thing in tlie newspapers this morning. I understand that the news was in Christchurch at 9 o'clock last night. If I had been consulted then, as I think I should have been, I would probably havo taken immediate steps to see if the journey could t not have been made later." It would | probably be said, he continued, that I the church people were not obliged to go to see the flyers arrive, which was undoubtedly true, but it would unsettle the community for tho whole day. It was placing an unnecessary temptation in the way of the people, and particularly young people. '' We will probably, be termed by some people 'wowsers,*'•' added tho Mayor, " biit you will. all agree that there is such a. thing- as ' Christian principles. : I think myself that the arrival of the flyers to-morrow is an insult to the Christian community as a whole. If their arrival on. Sunday was an absolute necessity we , would still havo regretted it, but we would very likely have fallen into line.. So far as I can see there is no need for it. Tho flyers have been hanging round Australia for a number of weeks."-.