SUNDAY SPORT

Evening Star, Issue 18263, 1 May 1923, Page 4

SUNDAY SPORT

A QUEENSTOWN INCIDENT,

The Dunedin Presbytery had before it this morning,a letter from tho Southland Presbytery regarding an incident at Queenstown on Easter Sunday. Tho Presbytery took exception to the action of the regatta authorities, who Unishcd the programme on the Sunday morning. The clerk wrote as follows;—“I am instructed _ to forward to you tho enclosed resolution originally drawn up by the three Christian bodies in Queenstown (Presbyterian. Anglican, and Salvation Army), and vcffd by their ministers at both services on Easter Sunday. The Presbytery of Southland commended their action, and adopted tho motion as a resolution of Presbytery. It feels that as tho fixture was carried out ■under tho auspices of the Otago Rowing Club, tho support of your Presbytery would add weight to the protest therein made.” The resolution was as follows :—“ It was resolved that the action of all concerned in completing the programme of the Queenstown regatta on the morning of tho Lord’s Day demands this expression of pur sense of shame that so great a sin against God and offence against the community should have been committed in our midst, a wrong-doing from which those who have a Christian conscience cannot too carefully dissociate themselves.” Tho Rev. Hector Maclean pointed out that it was unlikely that one club would be responsible for the regatta, and a general resolution was carried expressing tho Presbytery’s regret that any organised club should carry out any part of its programme on the Lord’s Day.