LOYALTY IN SCHOOLS.
NEW RULE IN N.S. WALES.
FLAG TO BE SALUTED. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY. May 10.
The Minister for Education, Mr. A. Bruntnell, has ordered that all public school children shall be assembled every Monday round the Union Jack "I honour my God, I serve my King, I Balute'tay flag," the ceremony to conclude with the singing of one stanza of tha Kational Anthem.
Mr. Bruntnell explains that tho reason for issuing the order is that there is a good deal" being done in other directkms to poison the minds of children against God, the King,.and the Empire, and he considers it imperative that he. should, so far as the Stat© schools are concerned, counteract this pernicious influence by instilling into the minds of tho children this duty. Mr. Bruntnell explains that the school children will salute the Australian flag, and will thus Iks saluting the Union Jack, which ia incorporated therein.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18087, 11 May 1922, Page 7
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154LOYALTY IN SCHOOLS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18087, 11 May 1922, Page 7
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