THE RAILWAY PICNIC.
(To the Editor.) Sir;—An individual signing himself "Timothy," has taken it on himself to criticise the railwaymen for holding a picnic on Sunday. Well, Sir, for his information, it is really true that we have to take it on Sunday or go without, for the reasons that the trains run every day in the year, except Sundays, and on ordinary holidays they _ run ia,t high pressure. "What does "Timothy" think of Christmas Day and Good-Friday being desecrated by the railwaymen being kept at work? I suppose he would call that a necessity. And so it is. Also it is a necessity for us to have, a day's outing, whether it be Sunday or any other day. I don't think we were desecrating the Sabbath half as much as "Holy Joes'' ,of the "Timothy" type, who go .about poking their noses into evcrybo'dy's; :y business. "Timothy" says he is not what may be termed a Puritan. I don't think he is either. I think myself he is a confounded "Wowser," and if he will send us his name and address we will get him to arrange things for us next time.—l am, etc., ONE OF THE PICNICKERS.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10148, 26 January 1911, Page 5
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199THE RAILWAY PICNIC. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10148, 26 January 1911, Page 5
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