BIBLE IN SCHOOLS AND THE EDUCATION ACT.
Sir,—You will perhaps allow me to correct a slight error in your report of the meeting of the Auckland Presbytery. lam there reported to have said that the Hon. George Fowlds made the statement that the intention of tho Legislature in passing the Education Act as it stands was to permit tho local authorities to retain time for the giving of Bible lessons. Your reporter evidently did not catch the right name. It was the Hon. C. C. Bowcn, the Minister in charge of the Act when it was before Parliament, who gave me a written statement to that effect. And on that point Mr. Bowen's statement is decisive. It seems clear that those education boards who are excluding Bible lessons by their regulations, requiring 25 hours' secular instruction each week, aro defeating the intentions of the Act, and are limiting too seriously the rights of school committees. This is a matter to which school committees should give attention. Isaac Jolly. St. Stephen's Manse, Ponsonby, April 14.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14345, 15 April 1910, Page 3
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