DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 September 1944, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

FATAL INJURIES

WELLINGTON, September 12.

Struck by a sheet of steel which fell from the sling of a travelling crane, at the Works Department Stores, Lower Hutt, yesterday afternoon, Robert Wyatt Meadows, married, with a young family, mechanic, of Lower Hutt, received severe head and internal injuries, from which he died shortly afterwards.

MURDER CHARGE

CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 11

Roy Kitchener Kennedy, aged 29, a corporal in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, who was arrested to-day tit Rollest'on, was charged in the Magistrate’s Court before Mr A. A. McLachlan, S.M., with the murder of Edgar Williams, aged 47, a railway guard, at Christchurch on September 9. Accused was represented by Mr C. S. Thomas.

Detective-Sergeant A. A. Herron said Kennedy had been arrested at 10.45 a.m. at Rolleston, and as a good deal of inquiry would have to be made he asked for a remand until October 2, Mr Thomas consenting.

“MAN AND HIS WORLD.”

AUCKLAND, Sept. 12.

Comment on the controversy which arose over Bishop Liston’s recent criticism of the book “Man and His World,” by Mainwaring, authorised for secondary school use, was made by Bishop Simkin when opening the session of the Anglican Synod today. “The danger of the teaching of the book lies in its humanistic conception of Jesus Christ, which it teaches and which has proved to be inadequate to unify men and nations,” said Bishop Simkin. “In what way can this teaching be combated? Only by the definite teaching of the Divinity of Jesus, Flis Divine Sdnship, His claim for the surrender and allegiance of wills. As Churchmen and as Christians we must examine closely the teaching given to our children and must be prepared to demand that, though under the present system religious belief may not be taught in the schools of the land, neither shall there be taught anything which is opposed to religious belief or belittling of truths which we regard as fundamental and immutable, because we believe them to be the revelation of God Himsell.’