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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1938, Page 8

After a dull day on Saturday and a cold evening, yesterday was a perfect day in Carterton. The sun shone bright late into the afternoon, and with no wind the atmosphere was pleasantly warm throughout the day.

Strong objection to the activities of a band of adherents of a religious sect who use powerful amplifiers to broadcast their religious views at open-air meetings has been taken by a number of people in Auckland who like to preserve the quiet of Sundays. The itinerant preachers (says the “New Zealand Herald”), with their mechanical aid to advocacy, have been in the habit of frequenting on Sundays the reserve at Mission Bay and the summit of Mount Eden, as well as quiet street corners in the suburbs. Members of this religious organisation transported their loud-speaker apparatus to the top of Mount Eden on a recent Sunday morning and commenced to broadcast their views. Apparently to the full power of the amplifiers. The noise was such that it even disturbed services in churches near Mount Eden road. It became so loud that one church member promptly drove to the top of Mount Eden and there requested the religious demonstrators to tone down their calls to repentance. They replied that they had been unaware that they had been creating a disturbance.