SUNDAY WORK.
• » . LETTER FROM GENEKAL GODLEY. '(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Auckland, March 12. While tho Methodist Conference was in session, a letter was read from MajorGeneral Godley in answer to a protest against the running of Sunday trains for military purposes. The letter was as follows:— "The position is that largo numbers of troops have to be trained in camps with only limited time available for this purpose. These camps are air-Tanged-to as far as possible suit local conditions of employers and oinploy- ■ ees and the various industries of the Dominion. This necessitates, in some cases, a return of the troops on Sunday in order not to break into-a second ■ working week. Everything possible is done, and will be done, to minimise Sunday work, and I would be very glad if you could offer some suggestions to meet tho difficulties of the .situation. I will correspond on. the subject with tho various district commanders t in order to limit travelling on Sundays to a minimum amount, or, if possible, to obviate it altogether, which I will endeavour to do.' The letter was received with enthusiasm,
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1387, 13 March 1912, Page 5
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184SUNDAY WORK. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1387, 13 March 1912, Page 5
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