SECTARIAN SCHOOLS
GOVERNMENT'S POLICY
The legislation committee of the Grand Orange Lodge of New Zealand recently telegraphed to the Prime Minidter (the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes) inquiring whether there was a possibility that the Government's attitude in opposition to State aid to sectarian schools might be changed, and drawing attention to a statement attributed to the Minister of Education (the Hon: S. G. Smith) at New Plymouth, that the present policy of refusing such aid might not always be the policy of the Government.
Mr. Forbes replied that the matter had been referred to the Minister of Education, who replied that at no time* had he suggested a departure from the existing policy of free, compulsory, and secular education. The Minister also said he deemed it his duty to visit private schools whose children were examined by his inspectors, and it was wrong to assume that ■ a 'few words of appreciation of the work being done indicated any change of policy. Mr. Forbes stated that the Government had no present intention of changing the existing policy.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 127, 25 November 1935, Page 19
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