In his opening address to the Auckland Diocesan Synod. Canon MacMurray, the Bishop's Commissary, referred to the Continental Sunday, remarking that the straining after •excitement and the strenuous pursuit of pleasure, even upon the day given for rest were making the race more hysterical, and more incapable of calmly facing difficulties and dangers than were our fathers. As a purely social question, hs gladly welcomed any action of those in authority which •limited the opportunity for bringing in amongst us what is called the Continental Sunday. He could not approve, on religious grounds, of the fining of heathen Chinese for working in their gardens on Sunday, but he did approve of the enforcement of regulations for the well-being of society.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3018, 15 October 1908, Page 3
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