POLITICS ON SUNDAY.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1924, Page 4

POLITICS ON SUNDAY.

LABOUR MEETINGS OPPOSED. MATTER RAISED IN HOUSE. (By Wire—Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, Last Night. The member for Gisborne (Mf. W. D. Lysnar) suggested in the Houwe to-night that political meetings on Sundays should be prohibited, and he hoped the Government would introduce legislation to that effect. The extreme Labour people made politics their calling and business They had no other calling and they were agitators. Sunday political meetings should be stopped. He knew a member who occupied the pulpit one Sunday morning and held a political meeting in the evening. He described Labour members as disbelievers in religion, who were prepared to desecrate the Sabbath.

Mr. H. T. Armstrong (Christchurch East) remarked that it would be alright perhaps if Labour spent Sunday night preaching the doctrine of Mr. Lysnar, but he would be ashamed to do that even on Monday.

Mr. W. J. Jordan (Manukau) objected to Labour members being referred to as of no religion, because the reference was not correct. He said he had once occupied the pulpit in Mr. Lysnar's electorate.