SABBATH OBSERVANCE.
FRUIT AND SOFT DRINK SHOPS.
“PURITAN SUNDAY NOT WANTED.”
[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.]
(Received June 13, 9.35. p.m.) SYDNEY, June 13
A deputation, representing the Evangelical Council, asked Dir Flowers, Acting Chief Secretary, to enforce the law for closing fruit and soft drink shops on Sundays. One speaker suggested that the law ought to go the whole way and stop all trains, trams aad boats. Dir Flowers, in promising that the Cabinet would give the matter consideration, said that he personally favored the old fashioned Sunday, but the idea of a puritan Sun-day could not, however, be entertained to-day, as the reaction against making such a bv-law would be so great that there would be no knowing where it would stop. They must be moderate, and he saw no harm in providing faciltiies for people to visit seaside resorts and obtain reasonable refreshments. A bill was being prepared providing that refreshment rooms within proclaimed areas should remain open only for limited hours on Sundays.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3244, 14 June 1911, Page 5
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166SABBATH OBSERVANCE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3244, 14 June 1911, Page 5
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