SUNDAY SCHOOLS UNION

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10924, 11 June 1921, Page 5

SUNDAY SCHOOLS UNION

DOMINION ASSOCIATION. DEPUTATION IN THE SOUTH. The Auckland Sunday School Union, which is a strong and vigorous body, is making great efforts ,to link up the whole of the Sunday School Unions in New Zealand. A Dominion association has been formed, but so far none of the South Island unions have joined up. The Auckland union i® sending a deputation to Christchurch and Dunedin 'to put the matter before the teachers there. The deputation, which consists.of tho Rev. L. B. Busfield (secretary), Air Rowe and Air Dearsley will he in Wellington next week, and it has been arranged that they should meet the local union and an address will be given by the Rev. Air Busfield.

It is hoped that the association will be enabled to initiate a scholars’ examination, covering the whole of tho Dominion, to take tire place of the different examinations now conducted by the separate unions. It is intended to co-operate as far as possible with tho young people’s department of the churcheß, and it is hoped that the association will become strong enough to start a Teachers’ Training Institute, and later on to bring experts from England or America- to put our sohools on a better footing.. The Auckland union, which has a very successful depot, is of opinion that all unions should have a depot far the supply of literature for the schools, as this could bd mads a financial aid to the unions and "help them in the matter of baekblocks missions ana similar aids to isolated schools.

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