BIBLE IN SCHOOLS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 43, 19 August 1943, Page 4

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS

LEAGUE'S ACTIVITIES

The Dominion council of the New Zealand Bible in Schools League held its quarterly meeting yesterday in Wellington under the chairmanship of Archbishop C. West-Watson. Twentyfour official representatives of seven church denominations were present. Among items considered were the provision of copies of the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, combined for class use, when publishing facilities permit, the advisability of the publication of a national translation of the Bible in modern speech, and arrangements for the immediate publication of an educational pamphlet, "Suggestions for Teachers of the Bible in Day School."

Recent supporting evidence for religious instruction in schools presented to the meeting included the Child's Charter, drawn up in London by representative educationists of all the Allied natipns, and reports from the Wanganui, Auckland, Canterbury, and Otago Education Boards, the Otago School Committees' Association, the Otago branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute, and the Auckland Training College students. The relation of the Administration schools in Niue Island to the question of religious teaching was considered and the report of a deputation to the Prime Minister was received and adopted.

The secretary of the league was reappointed for a further term of three years from next April. A new edition of the New Zealand Services of Worship booklet for day schools is pending, and a revision committee was set up. Latest official figures received from the education boards showed . that 100,^97 primary school pupils receive regular religious instruction weekly, and slightly incomplete returns showed that 44,789 participate in daily observance of worship.

there at opening time, when an extremely limited supply is doled out. Many of us queued up for our places in the lighters when cominga&.way from Greece and Crete; we have done the same for our meals ih Libya and Egypt; we have always accepted the slogan of "First in first served," but here we never get that far. Tobacco seems to be plentiful in town and elsewhere, but there is always a dearth in this camp. If we are to be rationed for it, could we not be issued with a ration card periodically or some system devised whereby occasionally one might collect a packet? Everyone who smokes is disgusted with the present arrangement, as the same lucky few seem to get what little is offering, and that is, believe me, very little. — I am, etc., SIGNALS, 2.N.Z.E.F. [The Canteen Board states that it draws its supplies of tobacco from the Ministry of Supply, and these are based on the reasonable smoking requirements of the men. Trentham receives an equitable share of the allotment made by the Department to the board. Shortage of man-power at the manufacturing end has caused delays in delivery.J