RELIGIOUS EXERCISES IN SCHOOLS
OUTSPOKEN COMMENT BY PRIMATE Dominion Special. Auckland, October 14. As in previous years, a considerable portion of Archbishop Averill’s presidential address to the Diocesan Synod was devoted this morning to the question of religious exercises in State schools. He was most outspoken on this subject. “The defeat of the Bill on its third reading in the Legislative Council was, no doubt, regarded as a triumph by the opponents of the measure, and by' Roman Catholics and secularists, who inspired and instructed the opposition,” he said If there was anv doubt about the question, the will of' the people should be tested bv means of a referendum, or an official plebiscite of the parents of children attending the primary schools. He was not prepared to believe that New Zealand was satisfied with the present secular system of education. “We are what we are in spite of our secular system of education,” lie declared. “But what about the future? We cannot live on capital for ever. It behoves our politicians to be statesmen, and to realise the solemn trust and responsibility of the country and Empire, and« to remember that their work will be judged by a juster and more solemn tribunal than anv temporary partv or sect. . For the honour of God and of His Christ, for the honour of our country and Empire and for the sake of the souls and characters of the children of this country, we must continue the fight for their riszhts, and for privileges which the children in our secondary schools enjoy. If we stand firm and united we must win, for our cause is a just and holy one.”
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 17, 15 October 1926, Page 8
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