MEETINGS ON SUNDAYS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20986, 24 September 1931, Page 12

MEETINGS ON SUNDAYS.

further prosecutions.

RATIONALISTS AGAIN CHARGED. adjournment of cases. The New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Rationalism was prosecuted in the Magistrate's Court yesterday on tiiree charges of holding unauthorised public entertainments in tJ)o Majestic | Theatre on recent Sunday evenings. The charges were brought under section .309 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, whic.h provides that no concert or entertainment open to the public may bo hold lon Sunday, Good Friday or Christmas Day without the written consent of the controlling local body. Mr. H. J. Butler, who appeared for the City Council, applied for an adjournment for one week. He said ho understood that the Rationalists ha'd discontinued their Sunday meetings and also thai there was ti likelihood of pleas of guilty being ententd in view of the decision of the Supreme Court in an appeal case instituted bv defendant association. The magistrate, Mr. W. 11. McKiean, granted' the adjournment. A similar charge was preferred against Sterling Rogers in connection with the holding cf an alleged unauthorised Sunday entertainment in the Civic Theatre. This casG also was deferred for a week owing tu» the illness of counsel for defendant, Mr. Armstrong.