PICTURES ON SUNDAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18121, 20 June 1922, Page 6

PICTURES ON SUNDAY.

REGULAR FINE-PAYER. FURTHER POLICE ACTION. [BI TELKGBAPn. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] CHRISTCHURCH. Monday. Arthur Beban, proprietor of the " Peerlesg Pictures," which are shown in the Greymouth Town Hall, has been convicted | and fined each week since the Sunday | pictures' test case was taken for keeping! .open the town hall for tlie purpose of I transacting business on Sunday. Thai police now have taken further steps ito ] break down this attitude of defiance, and at the Magistrate's Court at Greymouth J this morning, after Beban had been ordered | by Mr. Moldrum, S.M., to pay the usual | fine, Henry Hawkins (pianist), Henry , Jones (operator), and William Steele (a member of the audience) were charged J under Justices of the Peace Act with aiding and abetting Behan in the commission of an offence. The case is interesting, as a question was raised as to whether or not. in the event of a conviction, it would not be competent for the police to sue the Greymouth Borough Council and the ratepayers as lessors of the hall, members of the audience who attended, and Greymouth newspapers for advertising the perform- J ancee. I After legal anrnment, the magistrate reserved his decision. j SUNDAY-SCHOOL MOVEMENT THE WORLD'S ASSOCIATION. MISSION IN NEW ZEALAND. The world's Sunday-school movement was the subject of son.© remarks last evening by Mr. W. C. Pearce, associate general secretary to the World's Sunday-school Association, who arrived by the Manuka from Sydney. Mr. Pearce stated that he had been appointed by the association, the headquarters of which were in New York, to visit the different countries of the world in the interest of the organisation and religious education in order that the movement should have the advantage of the experiences of all nations. His programme in New Zealand would be to address meetings of Sundav-school workers, ministers of religion, and public meetings, in Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin, and Christchurch, on the function of the Sundayschool Association. A conference was to be held in Christchurch to consider the programme of the New Zealand Sundayschool Union and its relationship to the World's Sunday-school Association. In emphasising the need for the association, Mr. Pearce said the growth of democracy throughout the world had thrown the responsibility of government upon the people. State schools and other edaca- { tional institutions, he said, were providing ' adequately for the intellectual training of the children and the church schools must I accept the responsibility of providing the j religious or spiritual training. By this j process only could righteousness be made j co-extensive with intelligence. Mr. Pearce said the various countries of j the world had come into contact economi- j cally, socially, and industrially. This was indicated by the interchange "of trade and travel. It was just as important to have j international contact in a programme of ; j spiritual or religious training. This was j j what the World's Sunday-achool AssociaI tion was seeking to accomplish, through [ the organisation of national sections affili- j ated with the World's Association, and in ' effect to form a kind of spiritual League jof Nations. He had already visited 14 ! countries, including Algeria. Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, India, Ceylon, and Australia. From New Zealand he is to proceed to the Philippines, China. Korea, and Japan. Mr. Pearce spoke enthuKiosticafly of «he success of the movement in the , Balkans, and the other countries he had i visited, and said that in Cairo the old I Coptic Church had requested to be allowed |to become a part of the association, and was prepnrinGc a five years' course of lessens on the life of Jesus for their chiWran. He had seen an open-air Snndav-school ; with 130 children receiving instruction.