WEEKLY DAY OF REST.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1360, 23 January 1905, Page 3

WEEKLY DAY OF REST.

VICTORIAN PREMIER SPEAKS OUT

Melbourne, Jan, 10. The State Premier, Mr Beat, agrees with the Rev. Mr Marshall, who, at Scots’ Church yesterday, pleaded for “a weekly rest-day as a national necessity.” « a weekly rest-day, that’s the point 1 remarked Mr Bent to-day. “I have always,” ho asserted, “laid stress on that. In opposing the opening of the public library on Sunday, I have done so because I am afraid it would make some work on the workman’s day of rest, and Send towards creating more labour. While I think that children should be sent to church and Sunday school, and taught to yrorsbip and revere God, I speaking as a Minister of the Crown or member of Parliament, have always left the religious aspect out of the question. . “ I have said before, and I say again, let us preserve one day a week as intact as wo can as a dov of rest. It is a boon, the pricelossness of which, I am afraid, is only properly appreciated by those who have lost it-” ... , , 0 •• Would you etop all teams aod trams ! Would you prevent ” •> Wh'ut I would do,” interrupted Mr Bent, “‘is to draw a line. Now, I, as you know, was against any additional Sunday xcursion trains, and I am going to ask Parliament Co reconsider that extension. •• I would accept the situation as it is now tms State,” he continued, " but I would if I had my way. prevent any further

Sunday wuik, except such a 3 was very i gent Trio ox or the ass would, of • ,uisc, ha'® io be pulled out of the ditch if it fell on a Sunday, but anything that .:uU u wait till Holiday should wait-, I ' nink. It womd be possible even to ar„g„ f., r wu, king men and their families t.ng an airing without having to travel - ways on Sunday. They may call mo a Sabbalftrian it C ,uy like,” added Mr Bent, 11 butthut WODt nurt me. I champion one day of rest—a day of root, I repeat, once a week. Everyone of us should set bis face agaiost anything that will tend to rob us of that day of rest." “ That is all I hove got to say abont it.