TEACHING THE TEN COMMAND MENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 33, 9 February 1915, Page 8

TEACHING THE TEN COMMAND MENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

— * — TO THE KUITOII. Sir, — In a recent number of an American paper, m Inch 1 have just received, 1 noticed that the regulations of the Board of Education of Washington City (the capital of the United States, population 331,000)_. requires all teachers in the public schools to teach the Ton Com* manclments. Sir. ap. Christian, Jew, and followers of Mahomet are all agreed upon the Ten Commandment — the first code in our Britieh Domesday 800k — it is regrettable that these great laws of Moses should not be taught here to our children as part of their education. In eveiy British country in the world, except three, the Ten Commandments are taught in the State schools. I heard a Roman Catholic priest say that the&o ten laws are "the essence of the Bible." The above should interest school committees. — I am, etc., A NEW ZEALANDER. Wellington, Bth February. [ Napier freezing works find that a ■ large quantity of stock has of late come forward for slaughter., but in several instances shorter houi.s are being woikcd, states the Telegraph. The long spell of dry weather in Hawkes Bay is responsible for this, and as a l'ebiilt of farmeis being unable to have their sheep i put through the fieezing works they arc sending them in thousands to the other coast, where the feed is more plentiful. It, is stated that the conditions in Australia as regauls the difficulty of finding lefi igeruting shipping for e'xpoit is far worse than hem. several lieczing works in the Commonwealth having been compelled to close down altogether for a time. Mciis. E .lolmston and Co will soil oak furniture at their rooms,, 157, Lamb-ton-quay, to mot low, at 1 p.m. On Thursday they \\iJl s>il furniture at No. 116, Wtupawa-ioad, Hataitai, at 2 p.m.