SUNDAY TRAINS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22125, 1 December 1933, Page 7

SUNDAY TRAINS

TO THE EDITOR. Sib,—l think that I am beginning to understand your correspondent Mr Stringer, of Oamaru, better than I did. ( I have been told that he has queer ; notions on some things. I suspect that j most of us are thodght by our friends to be a bit queer on some things. Mr Stringer ha« a good case in raising objec- { tion to needless noise in connection with ! the Sunday trains. We old-timers have j formed the habit of regarding Sunday as ! a peaceful day of rest, and look upon ■ bustle and noise on that day in much the j same way a« I regard needless disturb- i ances to the sufferers in our hospitals. | To my mind, Mr Stringer does not I strengthen his case in any way by citing ; God as a witness, for the reason that I do not understand what he means by the term, and if I may say so, without giving offence to Mr Stringer, I submit that hi s is also a very limited under- , standing of the meaning of the term. Sometimes the Salvation Army Band puts in an appearance at our door on Sunday, plays very nice music at times, : and then brings round the tambourine. When it does not drown the song ot the tui, which does npt bring round any ■ tambourine, Ido not resent it. But , the Salvation Army, like our impecunious Government, must have money, so we poor sufferers must just grin and bear it. —I am, etc., John Law. November 29.