WEEK-END EXCURSIONS.
AUCKLAND, February 25. The Methodist Conference unanimously carried the following resolution: “ We desire to draw attention to what appears to be the settled policy of the present Government in the regular organising of week-end excursions on the railways, thus apparently seeking to bring in the Continental Sunday. We wish to enter an emphatic protest against this deliberate policy of Sabbath desecration because of its deteriorating effect on the moral and spiritual wellbeing of the people. We sincerely believe this, action ,of the Government to be opposed to all the best traditions, of the British people in that it helps to destroy the necessary quiet of the Christian Sabbath and helps to foster disregard for the sanctity of the Lord’s Day. We therefore earnestly call upon the Government to reverse its policy by the abolition of such week-end excursions.”'
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Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 68
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140WEEK-END EXCURSIONS. Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 68
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