METHODIST PROTEST
REPEAL OF DEFENCE ACT URGED. SPECIAL TO THE "TIMES.” CHRISTCHURCH. March 6. Tbe -teachers and officers of’the Richmond Wesleyan Methodist Sunday school passed tho following resolutions : 1. This meeting of tho Richmond Sunday school teachers desires the Revs. Abernothy, Burton, and Isitt, and Mr J. A. Flesher to call the attention of tho New Zealand Methodist Confei-enoo to tho \fact that ■“ boys are again being imprisoned in ) gaol with hard labour for noncompliance with the Defence Act, and to urge tho conference to at once use its influence to prevent further imprisonment and to have the Defence Act repealed. 2. This meeting further considers that the Defence Act at present constituted, and tho proceedings _ now being taken under it, are a menace to the young people of the Dominion, and if allowed to continue will oer- ' taiuly negative to a very great extent . the work of oiir Sunday schools and churches.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 8054, 7 March 1912, Page 1
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153METHODIST PROTEST New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 8054, 7 March 1912, Page 1
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