RELIGION IN SCHOOLS.
LABOUR'S POINT OF VIEW. COMMISSION NOT WANTED. Sydney, Monday. The Labour Conference has rejected a resolution that the conference should instruct the Parliamentary party to move for the appointment of a Royal Commission to inqure into the whole system of educaton, and that reports be submitted of the system or systems of religious teaching which would be acceptable to the whole community. Mr McCarthy, the mover, said that at preßent the parent who desired training for his child other than a purely secular one, was added with the payment of two bills for educaton. Mr Kinnealy, supporting the motion, said that if secular education were put in force to-morrow the schools could not accommodate the pupils who would be released from the denominational schools. Mr Watson, opposing the resolution said he considered the proper place for religious instruction was the home, not the school. The educational systems of the public schools had been drafted to produce citizens of the best types.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 640, 4 February 1914, Page 6
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