THE PEACE LEAGUE.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 216, 10 September 1921, Page 12

THE PEACE LEAGUE.

PROPAGANDA IN SCHOOLS. KlHi ATIUX BOAkIi OBJECTS. (I'.y Telegraph. -Press Association.) LIIKISTCHURCH, Friday. An application from the National tV.n-c iiuiioil for permission to address children in schools and to form branches i.I the I'em'C League was refused by the . .mtorhury Education Board at its luoi'tino (o-d.iy. The deputation, beaded by Mr. ('. 1":.' Mackie. tlie secretary ot I in' council, waited on the board following upon a letter in which the former buily outlined its aims. The letter from the Peace Council ii.nl thai a children's pence league in .Now Zealand was being formed, and the . uiittcil asked tor an assurance that no unnecessary obstacle would be placed in 'lie wav of it addressing children and forming' brandies of the Peace League in the school-: also expressing a hope thai the conncil had the. goodwill of the board in approaching school committees i"l seeking their active co-operation nnd their consent to the use of school Iho board defined its attitude in the following resolution: "That while the. hoard U Piindftll of tho unto-ld blessings )'nit wool.l ;o-iilt from a universal and -table jn'Hi i. and is earnestly desirous thct lb" nleavmirs of the League of \sif;t>ti» inn bring such peace within iio.'a.-iH'.'thio di-tance. it cannot regard witli ti|iprnMil or even equanimity the propaganda of a body that at a time of imminent neril merely took up the nttitmle of benevolent hut nevertheless li.i'igcrntis neutrality, which, bad it been -liarod by the majority of tho people. v.,n1.1 have snelt disaster to-the British Kmiiir.- iiml deprived her citizens of that free.lorn whirl) all unbiased persons re-rogni-i' tbev enjoy under the present • oust ilulional government, and that therefore the board cannot accede to the mmest nrefcrrcd by the National Teace ( mincil."