TRIPS ON SUNDAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20384, 12 October 1929, Page 10

TRIPS ON SUNDAY.

OBJECTION BY FARMERS

TASMANIAN PARTY'S VISIT. STRONG FEELING IN ASHBURTON. [by telegraph.—press association.] . ASHBURTON, Friday./» A lively discussion took place at a' meeting of the Mid-Canterbury Executive' of the Farmers' Union over the fact that the Tasmanian farmer# are scheduled to spend only Sunday in this district. It is suggested that the visitors inspect the 'Government experimental farm in the morning and motor through the county in the afternoon. Objection was raised to Sunday trips, a motion of protest being moved and seconded. Mr. Hammond: You may as.well protest against trips to Otira on Sundays. Mr. Evans: c No." This is our business. The Otira trip had nothing to do with us. Mr. H. Brown: You should take this in committee. Eighty per cent, of the people of Canterbury do not observe Sunday. Voices: Hardly that. Mr. H. C. B. Withell said the feelings of the visitors had not been taken into account. . , Mr. Brown: There is no other plac«', in New Zealand where they would kick up such a fuss. Finally the 'following motion was ear* ried: —"Tho executive regrets that the visit of the Tasmanian farmers is limited to Sunday only, and considers the following Monday should..;have been included in the time allocated for the stay in Ashburton."