RELIGIOUS EXERCISES IN SCHOOLS
Protests At Proposed Abolition By Telegraph—Press Association. Dargaville, May 9. Archbishop Averill, Primate of New Zealand, conducted confirmation services at "Ruawai, Mitital, and Dargaville yesterday, when'his pastoral letter, written as Bishop of Auckland, on the question of the proposed abolition of daily voluntary’ religious exercises in schools, was read. All churches were thronged.
At the conclusion of the services meetings of parishioners passed unanimously a motion protesting against the expressed intention of the Minister of Education, Hon. P. Fraser, to terminate the. daily voluntary religious exercises in State schools.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 190, 10 May 1938, Page 11
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