SUNDAY EXCURSION TRAINS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 12 June 1929, Page 5

SUNDAY EXCURSION TRAINS

FURTHER PROTEST TO MINISTER (By Telegraph—Press Association) % WELLINGTON, This Day. A further protest against the running of Sunday excursion trains was mada to the Minister of Railways today by a deputation representing the Wellington Ministers' Association, the Anglican Church Association, and laymen.. It was urged that the policy of the, Government in organising pleasure excursions on Sundays was not in the highest interests of the community. 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 other places. 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 the railway point of view in the same way as the department looked at other matters. To suggest that the department was out to commercialise Sunday and to do all it could to upset the ordinary way of treating the Sabbath was placing responsibility on the officers of the department winch they should not be called upon to bear. Publicity through schools had been stopped, 'it had been made clear to him by his officers that a demand for Sunday trains exists, and because of that the service was instituted. He assured the deputation that the whole matter be treated in a proper manner.