CORRESPONDENCE.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN THE NAPIER DISTRICT SCHOOLS. [To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph.] Sir, —In your leading article last evening upon " Religious Instruction " you have— unintentionally no doubt —allowed the clergy of the Church of England in this town to suffer some injustice. You are, I confess, perfectly right in stating that 1 applied to the Napier Committee for permission to teach in their schools ; right also in your information as to the courteous consent which, as you remark, they readilyaccorded me; and, Sir, you would havo been equally correct had you gone a little further and said that, for the last sixteen months, regular and systematic religious instruction had been given, both by my assistants and myself, to a considerable body of young people in the Napier district schools. Classes are held, Sir, twice a week, with an average attendance of eighty children. You will, lam sure, iv common fairness, pardon me for thus adding a "rider" to your article of yesternight.—l am, ko., De Berdt Hovell. Alarch 30, ISS3.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3653, 30 March 1883, Page 3
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173CORRESPONDENCE. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3653, 30 March 1883, Page 3
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