BIBLE READING IN SCHOOLS.
AUCKLAND PROCEDURE EXPLAINED. AUCKLAND, November 21. Bible reading in State schools was briefly referred to at this morning’s meeting of the Auckland Education Board when the school committees at/ Pirongia and Howick applied for permission to introduce the Nelson system of Bible reading into their respective schools. A referendum had been taken in each instance and the parents had agreed to the scheme in both cases. The chairman (Mr A. Burns) said that the applications in all cases were granted after a referendum, the permission being subject to the condition that there should be no compulsion. The Bible reading could be done either before or after school hours. He admitted that in some cases the Bible reading was done during the first half hour of the school day, but that was not a violation of the school hours in reality, because the Act provided for four hours’ teaching per day, while the schools were giving five hours. Parents who were against Bible reading could keep their children away during the half hour occupied in reading the Bible.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3898, 27 November 1928, Page 77
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