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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1456, 16 September 1885, Page 4

The London Road (Sonlhwark) Car Company, having like the old Scotch farm pr— in re honesty being. the the best policy — " tried baith/' has p-ovpf] that what is called s»Miatarianism is Bound economical policy. After a ■ twelvemonth's experience of no Sunday running, the chairman states that there has been a very r«mnrkahle improvement m the ' value of their pr<>pei'ty. The traffic receipts fitive gone up nearly £1000 over those of Ihe previous year although they ran six days as against seven, and the v:tlu* of tlioir stud horses had increased owing to the weekly rest, to improved feeding, and the weeding out of useless horses. Commenting on this case, the City— no. the sentimental — editor of the Pall Mall tfazette observes I h at, " wha'ever may be said concerning Sunday koeping, the fftcfc that neither man nor horse should work more thnn six days m Severn is a gt eat economical truth which can never be violated without incurring m the long run financial loea."