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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 97, 22 April 1909, Page 6

see thai (he package w^ is undamaged and the \ I name NELSON MOATE & Co., I <■ Ltd., is on every packet and \ box. This name guarantees your getting pure Ceylon and | pure blended tea. All grocers i who stock first-class goods sell our tea. If you cannot get I MOATE &Co.'s when you ask for it, kindly send j us a postcard, and we will see | that you are supplied. ' | 1/4,1/6,1/8,1/10,2/-, 2/2 per lb. I

Says ,th© Napier Telegraph: — A gentleman in Wellington, doubtess sincerely believing what he asserts, has written us to irecommend householders to vote, at the approaching schoql committee elections, only for candidates who favor a referendum concerning Bible reading in the State schools. ■ His reason is that crime, and especially crime among the native bonn, is increasing because the Bible is not read in the -schools. It is astonishing how much in error, amd doubtless in honest error, persons cam be on this subject. They possibly do not sufficiently consider the facts before speaking. As to crime, in New South Wales, where .religious teaching is part _of the school curriculum, the proportion of convicted parsons per ten thousand of the populaHon is 47.5. In New Zealand it is 33.12. Further, ais to crime among the native born, at the last census the proportion of native born over fifteen years of age, excluding Maoris, was 56 pence nt. The proportion of /native bom ■among the prisoners in the gaols was only 33 per cent. As a matter of! fact, New_ Zealand is one of the lemsfc criminal countries in t'lvo world. Not only so, but crime is decrea^ine; in this country. In spite of the fact that since IS9O new offence* have been credited by -alteo-ationw of the law. tending- to swell the number of convicted pon-.sons, in. that v»-- ; i:r. ilu- iiiimj boT of convicted prisotu-r.s w.-us HS.GI .' por ten thon,«and of Mi^ [<c0};1... nnd ;in 1906 w-as down to X}.}?. -^- r r ., ni f. ( For Chronic Ghost Ooni]>]aiT)tf>—'; : Woods' Great i'eppermin-t Civvo, Is 6d i mid 2s 6d. .-..-.- .