SUNDAY LAW AND CHINESE.
Sir, —All religious significance formerly attached to the European Sunday has during the past 50 years been steadily diminishing, until there is scarcely a shred left of the Sabbath, as it was kno-vn during the Victorian era. Every sane person realises it; yet we have the legal paradox of Chinese (who are unamenable to the remaining Christian conventions) being prosecuted for carrying on their essential occupation of gardening on Sunday. Since they have been given the right to take up their abode here, and to become naturalised, naturalisation not imposing any change in whichever religion tney profess, if any, in the face of the vital fact that they are not trespassing upon the liberty of anyone else, why should they be prevented from working on Sunday, if their habits of industry prompt them to do so ? I wonder what British residents in China and other landu wouild say if they were prohibited from holding races and betting at them on a Chinese or Hindu Sunday. The writer's personal experience of the Chinese is that they are one of the most temperate and iaw-abiding races of people. C. E. Major.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20131, 17 December 1928, Page 14
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