BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.
' POSITION. AT WANGANUI-. . . . CD* iKLtonArit—raEsa ASSOCUTION.) . ' Wanganul, June 11. < At the Education Board last night a deputation frAm tho, Ministers' Associatioii -.a half-hour per week 'be'.allowed . ffoih :schbol;hours for Bible lessons. Members - of jthe Board expressed- themselves stnongly . against^interfering mth the secular of theieducation system. : They, were willing v .to allow Bible lessons provided they were given -outside the hours fixed for the-Ordi- i nary,-syllabus. It was"resolved- that any time seWiipart"for Bible-teaching" must' be outside tho school hours,^-.and that the Board' - cannbt=;ie6 its way, to. alter, the regulation at five per. day. " A';'feitiiije ":of tho'position is that while ill maiiy districts tlm' fixing of the number of ,Mh<»l : 'h6urs',is left'.to the committees, in tho "Winganiii educational district tho Board . fixes-.the hours by regulation, without refer-. . eitce '.td; the'! committees. .A recent Appeal CoUTttest case .decided that the Board had ~ pow'or to do; this, - and: that the- regulations' , carried : the, force of tho law. - 1
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 222, 12 June 1908, Page 11
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