BIBLE IN SCHOOLS
DEVOTIONAL EXERCISES
PERMITTED
(United Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 16. A deputation from the New Zealand Bible-in-Schools League this morning asked the Wellington Education Board to sanction five minutes’ devotional exercises in school time, with prayer, a hymn, and Scripture reading; A subsequent deputation from the Wellington Head Masters’ Association and representatives of the Wellington district branches of the New Zealand Educational Institute raised strenuous objection to the proposal, the main point being that unless there was a State church in New Zealand and a State religion teachers should not be placed in the position of having to act as religious teachers, which was a duty being shirked by parents and those responsible for religious teaching that is, the churches. It was pointed out that recently the Primary Teachers’ Conference opposed such an innovation by a large majority. By nine votes to five the board decided to alter its by-laws to permit school committees to allow five minutes’ devotional exercises each morning. _____
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Southland Times, Issue 23228, 17 June 1937, Page 4
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