WORSHIP IN SCHOOLS
PERMISSION ALREADY GRANTED
(Special to “The Mail”)
CHRISTCHURCH, 24th November. That the Canterbury Education Board had given permission to school committees and teachers to hold religious exercises or instruction, up to half an hour a day, was revealed by the Rev. L. A. North, speaking before the Presbyterian General Assembly in Christchurch on behalf of the Bible in Schools League. Mr North stated that Wanganui and Otago Education Boards have also given permission for schools' in their districts to open with a few minutes of religious exercises each morning. Already more than thirty schools in Otago, by the wish of teachers and parents, were using the opportunity offered.
‘•Our task is not to press for the passing of some hasty legislation,” said Mr North, “but to encourage people to use the opportunities already existing and to ask all education boards to give the opportunities which some already do.” The Assembly asked its members to keep these matters before Presbyterians throughout New Zealand.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 25 November 1936, Page 8
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