TO RIDE TO CHURCH
MAY BE ILLEGAL LONDON, Doc. 19, 1 Hoping to make Iho situation so absurd that revision, of the Lord’s Day Observance Act of 1-607 will become imperative, the Manchester Sunday Games and Freedom League is planning to enforce its strict observance.
According to the league’s officials, pan,'titles may he inflicted on any person who' rides to church on Sunday, or sells goods on Sunday. Not only that, hut everybody must attend the Established Church on Sunday. They are securing legal opinion and, if assured that the Act is still in force, will institute prosecution of prominent people all over the country. The league in taking this stand in order to reduce to ridicule the recent prosecutions of persons accused of illegally opening cinemas on Sunday.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17454, 31 December 1930, Page 8
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