RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
THE STATE SCHOOLS
TRIBUTE TO SECULAR SYSTEM
A brief reference to the secular system of education in New Zealand was made by the Minister of Education (the Hon. P. Fraser) at a conversazione in Christchurch on Wednesday afternoon in honour of the visiting educationists (states the "Star* Sun"). The Minister said the visitors would appreciate that in New Zealand there was no State Church, and that all religions were given equality of status. The country decided years ago on a secular system of education, and the children of parents of all denominations and of none mixed in the schools on the best terms of friendship. This was a great factor contributing to the fortunate absence of religious intolerance and strife and sectarian bitterness in the Dominion. An appreciation of this fact, said the Minister, would be a useful key to an appreciation of the attitude of teachers in the Dominion. The Minister's remarks were received with loud applause by the audience.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 14, 16 July 1937, Page 11
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163RELIGIOUS FREEDOM Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 14, 16 July 1937, Page 11
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