BIBLE READING IN SCHOOLS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 89, 16 April 1910, Page 5

BIBLE READING IN SCHOOLS.

BRISBANE REFERENDUM. IN FAVOUR OF THE PROPOSAL. Br Telegraph. — Tress Association.— Copyright. : (Received April 16, 10.39 a.m.) | BRISBANE, This Day. The referendum on the question of Bible-reading in Stato schools resulted : For the proposal ... 21,929 Against the proposal ... 15,413 The vote was taken under the Religious Instruction in State Schools Referendum Act of 1908. The ballot-paper was an under :— Are you in favour of introducing the following system into State schools, namely : The.. State schoolmaster, in school hours, teaches selected Bible lesrons from a reading book provided for the purpose, but is not allowed to give sectarian teaching. An* minister of religion i* entitled, in school hours, to give tbe children of his own denomination ' an hour's religious instruction on such day or days as the school committee can arrange for. Any parent is entitled to withdraw his child from all religious teaching if he chooses to do /h>? Yes.

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