SUNDAY LEGISLATION.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18830, 19 March 1931, Page 9

SUNDAY LEGISLATION.

REQUEST BY THEATRICALS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 18, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 18. Two hundred members of the House of Commons met Sir Gerald Dumaurier, Mr Leslie Henson and other theatricals who requested that the forthcoming Sunday legislation should give theatres, as well as cinemas the right to open on Sunday, and also that employees should be protected against the seven day week. A committee was appointed to watch the Bill.

[A previous message stated that in the House of Commons the Home Secretary, Mr J. R. Clynes, announced that he would shortly introduce a bill to deal with the Sunday opening of places of amusement and to regularise the practice before the recent legal decision which held the Sunday opening of cinemas illegal. The principle of the bill would be left to a free vote of the House. There would be a provision that no employee should work more than six days a week. Agreement on this point had been reached between the employers and the trade unions. Replying to an inquiry relating to the strong body of opinion In the country in favour of observing the sanctity of Sunday, Mr Clynes said that after hearing every side of the question he had taken account of the great volume of opinion in favour of altering the existing law. The bill would give municipalities power* of local option in the matter J