GREATER SHARE URGED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26782, 27 May 1948, Page 5

GREATER SHARE URGED

SCOTLAND’S CONTROL OF 4TS OWN AFFAIRS CHURCH ASSEMBLY'S MOVE N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent Rec. 9 p.m. LONDON, May 26. The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has carried a resolution urging an inquiry into the practicability of giving Scotland a greater share of control over its own affairs and instructing that a special report on the matter be submitted to the next meeting of the Assembly. Moving the adoption of the resolution, Professor J. H. S. Burleigh rebutted criticism that the Assembly should not venture into the political field and said that there was nothing the Assembly could do to better effect than to draw attention to the dangers of the overcentralisation of political and economic power in London, The Duke of Montrose, also supporting the resolution, urged that the Church of Scotland should be given adequate representation in the Reformed House of Lords. The Upper House could not at present properly discuss religious subjects when the only official religious opinion inside the House was that of the Church of England. He denied charges that those advocating greater Scottish control of Scottish affairs were trying to separate England from Scotland. He was sure that 99 per cent, of the people of Scotland were content to remain an integral portion of the United Kingdom.