SABBATH OBSERVANCE.
CANDIDATES' VIEWS. Through its secretary, the Ministers 1 Association has .communicated ' with all. the candidates for civic honours as to their attitude with regard to Sunday entertainments. At yesterday's meeting it was reported that twenty -two of the candidates were in sympathy with the objects of the association. One writer i stated :— " I have to acknowledge receipt ofr your circular letter covering questions of the Wellington Ministers' Association re Sunday amusements. I have no hesitation in assuring your association that I am, always have been, against disturbing the present restrictions governing Sunday entertainments. ( I consider that it would be greatly against the interests of the community if anything in the nature of the' ' Con- N tinental Sunday ' should be permitted. " N Messrs. A. L. Hunt, W^ S. Bedford, F. 'Cohen, John Smith, W. J. Thompson, W. H. P. Barber, V. Jensen, R. W. Cameron, J. E. Jenkinson, Jame6 Godler, Henry Boclley, A. R. Hornblow, Joseph Mandel, E. Gallichan, John Castle, John Fuller, A. R.- Atkinson, Charles Thorpe, W. H. Bennett, G. Shirtcliffe, and G. Frost, expressed themselves in similar terms.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 96, 25 April 1911, Page 8
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182SABBATH OBSERVANCE. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 96, 25 April 1911, Page 8
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