RELIGION IN SCHOOLS
TRADES COUNCIL ATTITUDE
(0.C.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Strong opposition to the proposals of the Council of Churches for religious instruction in schools was expressed at a meeting of the Canterbury Trades Council, according to a statement issued by the secretary (Mr. A. B. Grant).
"The council reaffirmed its continued and strengthened belief in free, compulsory and secular education," said Mr. Grant. "The council is of the opinion that education, broadly speaking, reflects the economic system under which we live and, because of our free'and secular education system, there is an everwidening study of, and for, social change.
"One of the results of our 50 years of free, compulsory and secular education in New Zealand is that our moral standards compare more than favourably with those of other countries, and the council is of the opinion that a high moral and ethical basis does not depend upon religious instruction in schools. It will oppose the introduction of such instruction."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 251, 23 October 1944, Page 6
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