LOUD SPEAKER AGAIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 788, 8 October 1929, Page 18

LOUD SPEAKER AGAIN

ASKED TO MOVE ON The Onehunga Borough Council became involved last evening in a, discussion on the question of street preaching - . The subject arose out of a. letter signed by four shopkeepers asking that a body of street preachers who met every Friday, night at the corner of Queen and Arthur Streets should be removed. The writers considered this a reasonable request, in view of the fact that one business man had been able to have the band shifted. It was generally agreed by the councillors that the trouble lay with one particular evangelist whose voice could | he heard several blocks away. “It is so loud,” said one councillor, “that a chemist complained to me that he could not hear the doctors when telephoning their prescriptions.” The -Mayor, Mr. E. Morton, said that it was not desirable that any religious sect should be prohibited from preaching at the street corners, but the council must necessarily protect the business ! people from annoyance. A motion that the offenders be asked i io remove to Grey Street corner, away i i rom the business centre, was met by 1 « ! n amendment, which was carried by six votes to three, that the preachers j he requested to make their stand at a different corner every week.