BAPTISTS PROTEST
RAIL TRAVEL ON SABBATH
MENACE TO QUIET SUNDAY
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, 13th October.
At the Baptist Union Conference- today a deputation was received from the New Zealand Alliance, and appropriate response in support of the work of tho alliance was made. The following resolution was approved:—
"This Baptist Conference, gravely concerned with the attack on tho quiet Sunday by the Railway Department and their deliberate encouragement of Sunday travel for holiday purposes is, in the opinion of this conference, a menace to the most precious possession of the nation, to wit, the quiet Sunday, and calls on the nation to maintain this priceless legacy."
Mr. W. J. Bardsley, of Dunedin, is the new vice-president of the conference, and therefore president-elect. The new council was elected as follows: —Dr. J. J. North, tho Revs. J. Hiddlestone, L. B. Busfleld, H. E. Ivempton, J. Laird, M. W. P. Lascelles, L. J. D. Smith, A. W. Stuart, L. A. North, E. T. Jones, H. E. Edridge, W. E. Lambert, E. S. Tuckwell, A. Anstice, Messrs. F. W. Gaze, H. Dearsley, W. H. Newton, W. 11. Kendon, \V. Lambourne, J. R. Carey, F. W. Homer, R. C. O'Connor, C. J. Davracott, W. J. Bardsley, and C. E. Beckiosale.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 91, 14 October 1932, Page 14
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