SUNDAY SCHOOLS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 219, 10 June 1921, Page 7

SUNDAY SCHOOLS

The Auckland Sunday School Uniqn, which is a strong and vigorous body, is making great efforts to link up tho whole of tho Sunday School Unions in New Zealand. A Dominion association has boon formed, but so far none of tho South Island unions have joined up. Tho Auckland Union is sending a deputation to Christchurch and Dunedin to put tho matter before tho teachers there. The deputation, which consists of the Rev. L. B. Busfield (secretary), Mr. Rowe, and Mr. Dearsley, will be in Wellington next week, and it 'has been arranged that they should meet th local union, and an address will bo given by the Rev. Mr. Busfield.

It is hoped that tho association will bo enabled to initiate a scholars’ examination covering the whole of the Dominion, to take the place of the different examinations inow Conducted , (by tho separate uniono. It is intended to co-operate as far as possible with the young people’s department of the churches, and it is hoped that tho association will become strong enough to start: a teachers’ training institute, and later on to bring experts from England or America to put our schools on n hotter footing. The Auckland Union, which has a very successful depot, is of opinion that all unions should hove a depot for tho supply of literature for tho schools, ns this could bo made a financial aid to the unions, and help them in tho matter of bnckblocks missions and similar aids to isolated schools.