MARIST BROTHERS.
CHRISTCHURCH, September 20
A crowded audience in the Ope-ra House te-:iight was addressed by the Rev. Howard EiUott. The following motion was carried : "That this" meowing of citizens of Christchurch, held under tlio auspices of the Protestant ' Political -Association protcsta against the injustice which has boon dono to the public schools of the country by the total exemption til! now of Marist Brothers from military service, while the State school teachers have been-required to render, and have rendered up to 33 per cent, of their male staff; and this meeting calk on the Government to end the vicious differentiation in favour of sectarian schools by at once placing a 33 per cent, requirement against the staff of the Roman Catholio schools; and this Electing further believes the mere exemption from now on to #ll school teachers, as has been suggested > in Parliament, will not meet the situation unless a sacrifice proportionate to that already made by the publio schools be first required from private schools."
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Otago Witness, Issue 3315, 26 September 1917, Page 55
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167MARIST BROTHERS. Otago Witness, Issue 3315, 26 September 1917, Page 55
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