BRITISH EDUCATION BILL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9067, 12 April 1906, Page 5

BRITISH EDUCATION BILL

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S VD3WS. [press association.] (Received April 11, 11.24 a.m.) LONDON, April 11. The Archbishop of Canterbury, im a letter to the Secretary of the National Society for promoting education on the principles of the Established Church, says the Education BUI withdraws from churchmen' i~e right to carry out the principles which the successive Governments, of all panties, for half a century have encouraged them to maintain, and brings voluntary schools in one stroke to an end, involving, true* property, given in many instances by donors,, who ate still alive, for the very purpose of securing what is now proscribed. Churchmen should take immediate counsel in this far-reachamg and grave emergency. CATHOLIC BISHOP'S CONDEMNATION^ "LONDON, April 11. m Casartelli, Catholic Bishop at Salford, declarae that the Hon. A. BinelTs bill is -without a -redeeming feature. It compels Catholics to support a system they are unable to use and which they do not approve. It is practically a confiscation of -Catholic schools.