KNEW NOT MOSES.

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1931, Page 12

KNEW NOT MOSES.

[t- the editob.] Sir, —Apropos of the action of Mr Eldon Coates, Chairman of the Technical College Board, an account of which you published in Monday’s issue, which narrated that Mr Coates told of a boy who knows nothing about Moses and Pharoah, I think that Mr Coates proceeds to add injury to insult by drawing pointed attention to the boy at a meeting of tne Board. It has evidently not dawned on the Chairman that we now live in an age of religious freedom. In matters religious, civilised man leaVes to the individual conscience the right to believe this or that religion, or to discard them all. * Anyway, applying Mr Coates’ process to himself, I would like to ask him whether his knowledge of Moses and Pharoah has made him any nicer or smarter than he would have been without it, and whether he considers himself a fit and proper person to put leading questions to anyone on matters religious?—l am, etc.,

INTERESTED, Greymouth, May 6. [We have deleted a portion of our correspondent’s letter, as being too personal—above a pen name.—Ed. “Star.”]