BIBLE IN SCHOOLS BILL
! si AIiCHKISHOr AYERIM/S I'I.EA Itc1 tc I i \\ i-sss-- : H WELLINGTON, August 1!). ;s< "Our motives are pure, and wo i " only ask for justice. We desire only i to serve and honour our God, and j w to give to His children the best ci form of education which it is pos- ,r siblc for them to have. We desire, in short, to carry out loyally the j declaration of Geneva that man-! kind owes to the child flic best itj'h has to give," said Archbishop 13, Averill, Primate of New Zealand, 14 in concluding an address at a mass | meeting held in the Wellington jot Town Hall this afternoon under the'p auspices of the Bible-in-state- ' rr ' schools League. The meeting resolved to appeal to Parliament to Rive statutory enactment to the Religious Instruction in Public Schools Enabling Bill j ll; without further delay. There ws:s | an attendance of approximate! v i li) 00. the Hon, Sir James Allen, M.L.C., being in the chair.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21247, 20 August 1934, Page 10
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