The Heathen Chinee and Sunday-Trading.
ITO TIIE EDITOR.]
Sir, —We have heard a good deal about tne Bible in schools, the Bible in Turkey episode, and the referendum fiasco, but what I wish to know from you —who should be able to explain the present-day New Zealand legislation—is whether the Shops and Offices Bill enables the opponents of the Bible in schools to carry the war into the enemy's camp'? Does the war in the East enable the heathen Chinee to carry on a commercial war in the West—or is it the farther south ? I ask these questions, as I learn, on about the highest authority in Masterton, that the latest missionary development is that of an enterprising Chinese, who secures the nimble penny of the Sunday school boys, in return for the seductive lollies, to sweeten the labours of the youngsters in repeating their Bible lessons in Sunday school. I don't think the Shops and Offices Bill provides for Sunday trading, but I do think the poll-tax should be exchanged for a pole-axe in this kind of enterprise. If you find this letter somewhat incoherent you 1 will understand the reason when I tell you have been studying last session's statecraft.—l am, etc., Pagan.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8014, 9 December 1904, Page 5
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