The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, FEB. 11, 1893. Harvesting on Sunday.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 100, 11 February 1893, Page 2

The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, FEB. 11, 1893. Harvesting on Sunday.

A Mosgibl farmer has been punished under clause 16 of " The Police Offences Act, 1884," for stacking his crops on Sunday. This elause provides : " That any person who on Sunday, in or in view of any public place, trades, works at his trade or calling, deals, transacts business, or exposes for sale, or keeps open to public view any house, store, bar, or other place for the purpose of trading, dealing, transacting business, or exexposing goods for sale therein, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one pound. But nothing herein shall apply to works of necessity or charity, or the driving of live stock, or the sale of medicines, or the sale or delivery of milk, or to hairdressers or barbers before nine o'clock in the forenoon, or to persons driving any public or private carriage or cab, or to persons on railway trains, tram cars, cable lines, steamers, vessels, boats, or livery stable-keeper, persons letting boats for hire, or persons employed in the post and telegraph offices, or to any person employed in publishing a daily paper." The chief provisions of this part of the Act are copied from an English Act of Charles the Second, which still remains in force, and under which every person who fails to attend church at least once on Sunday may be fined one shilling. We certainly agree with our contemporary the Manawatu Daily Times in thinking that in the case of O'Brien the Act was strained to the utmost, and the Minister of Justice would be justified in directing the police to cease prosecutions of the nature referred to. The climate of this country is so variable that a man is really criminally negligent who does not take every opportunity of getting his crops when ready under cover as quickly as possible.