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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18253, 23 November 1933, Page 3

“There have been eight solicitors in the list of the regiment’s commanding officers,” said Colonel G. T. Hall, speaking at the annual reunion of members of the Wellington Regiment. “It is little wonder, under the circumstances, that the regiment knows how to charge.” That approximately 70,000 children in New Zealand are receiving no religious training of any kind was stated in the report of the youth department, which was received by the synod of the North Canterbury • Methodist district. “Four years ago the estimate was ICO.oOO.” said the report. “The improvement in the situation is chiefly duo to an extension of Bible lessons in State schools. A group of State teachers in training at the Normal School in Auckland is voluntarily participating in training for Bible teaching. Sunday school teachers of several denominations are now studying in the council’s teacher-training course.”