PROTESTANT POLITICAL ASSOCIATION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 13 July 1917, Page 5

PROTESTANT POLITICAL ASSOCIATION.

SOME STRONG RESOLUTIONS,

BY IELEGEAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, July 11. A crowded meeting at the Town Hall to inaugurate the Protestant Political Association passed a resolution' express- | ing hearty approval of the national ! system of education in vogue in New Zealand as opposed to the sectarian system, and its determination to strenuously combat all attempts to interfere with religious liberty which the* national system alEords; als"o congratulating the Minister for Education on. ins firm opposition to the granting of State aid to the Roman Catholic schools. Another resolution was affirmed, £hat Protestants protest against the glariag injustice being done ta them,, the teachers and children of the DomjHion, especially to men of the feecoiad Division, by the preferential treatment of the Marist and Christian brothesiiooi in i-espeet to military servjge.