FILMS AND RELIGION
"NEARLY PAGAN" CHILDREN [nv TELEGRAPH OWN CORRESPONDENT ) NAI'IER. Friday " A great many children never go to church, ne\or go to Bible class or anything else. They are being brought up in a normally Christian population as near the pagan as they can bo. If this is going to e aeon rage them to go to these places, by all means let us approve it," saic the Rev. R. R. Wmigh at a meeting of the Uawko's Ray Kdueation v ßoard. when a request from the Religious Film Society of Now Zealand that the board should support tho forthcoming screening of religion? films in Napier and Hastings was being considered. It was suggested that circulars should bo |>ormittcd in the schools under the board's jurisdiction. "What Mr. W'augh says is quite true," said the chairman, Mr. J. Wauchop. "There are many children wiio are being brought up with very little knowledge of religion." The request was granted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22250, 26 October 1935, Page 14
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