SUNDAY TRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14923, 22 February 1912, Page 4

SUNDAY TRAMS.

Sir,—For tho sake of the very large num. bers of citizens -who for reasons of necessity or recreation travel on Sunday it is great It to Iks hoped that the application 'by th« Tram Company for permission to run I continuous service on that day will uA granted. As the Rev. W. Ready is reported to have said, if the trams run on Sundays at all they might just; as well run all the time. It fee ma farcical to tie them up for 80 minutes morning and evening. I have noticed again and again that many churchgoers are quite willing to ride to and from their respective churches on the cars, and ; having reached their destination apparently i want the cars to stop without regarato the needs of others. If business men can transact their business with the noise of the cars going for six days in tho week, surely those worshipping can not possibly be so much disturbed by the traffic during the time services Are held on one day. And if the cars stop for church services, church people might imt as well claim to suspend them during , the times both in the morning before church, and in the afternoon, when Sunday-school (services are being held. And why not stop them on Saturdays also to oblige the Seventh . ' Day Advcntist and tho Hebrew sects? The - j right of each employee to one day's lest in "M seven could be easily safeguarded. As for ! ! noise, very manjr people would bo intensely i relieved if the churches themselves would 1 - i put a- stop to the medieval practice of bellbringing which is quite unnecessary nowadays. • j when clocks and watches are universal, I I do not know the particulars of the allies- ■ tion to the Council, but I would suggest that f&Sthe cars should ran both earlier and liter on Sundays. It is true the Sunday-tram proposal -was barely carried at first, but this 1 believe, was duo less to the religious feel- > inz of the community, than to the apathy which so often manifests itself here in municipal affairs. If this city, and, indeed, this j§ Dominion ar© ever to attain to any position at all, it can only be by outgrowing some of tlid puritanical and Grandmotherly tencla which at present prevail. F.EW. , |§ ' . ■ -