SUNDAY TRAINS

Northern Advocate, 13 June 1929, Page 8

SUNDAY TRAINS

ANOTHER PROTEST,

MATTER TO BE BEiVIEWEID. (Per Press Association. —Copyright.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. A further protest against the running of Sunday excursion trains was made to the Minister of Railways today by a deputation Of representatives of the Wellington Ministers’ Association, tlie Anglican Clerical Association and laymen. It was urged that the policy of the Government in organising pleasure excursions on Sunday is cot in the highest interests of the community, and it was' noted, with regret, that the department’s attitude to .Sunday was, frankly, a, commercial one.

The Hon. W .'B. Taverner,, in reply, said the matter had been brought before him at ether places and he could not help but be impressed with what had been said. On the other hand, the matter was one which must be regarded from a railway point of view, in the same way as the department looked at other matters. To suggest that the department was out to commercialise the 'Sunday and do all it could to upset the ordinary way of [treating the Sabbath,- was placing a |responsibility on the officers of the department which they should not bo called upon to bear. Publicity through the schools' had been stopped.

It had been made clear to him by his officers that a demand for Sunday trains existed and because of that the service was instituted. He assured the deputation that the whole matter would be treated in a, proper manner.