INTOLERANCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 452, 6 September 1928, Page 11

INTOLERANCE

Christchurch Mayor’s Message to Airmen

FLYERS TRUST IN GOD / Press Association WELLINGTON - , Wednesday. The Mayor of Christchurch, the Rev. J. K. Archer, was strongly criticised by Mr. R. A. Armstrong, the president, at the annual meeting of the Wellington Trotting Club, held this evening. Referring: to the intolerance of a section of the community who were seizing: every opportunity to attack and kill spQrt, Mr. Armstrong: said that the people had, in the recent hysterical outburst in Christchurch against the proposed Sunday arrival of the Tasman flyers, an indication of the lengths to which intolerance would go. This outburst,” said the chairman, "was one of the most striking examples of intolerance that has ever come before the people of this country. Mr. Archer even went so far as to send a telegram to the gallant air- j men asking them not to arrive on Sunday. These sportsmen, in attempting to fly over such a great waste of ocean, show a greater practical trust in God and religion than any hvmnsinging people do who are so narrowminded as to pass such resolutions. Christchurch should be full of gratitude that the airmen have selected that city as the landing place in New Zealnad, without some small, meanlieaded people protesting hystericallv against their arriving on a Sundav.”