BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 18237, 10 July 1931, Page 3

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.

BILL TO BE PRESENTED. CATHOLIC OPPOSITION WITHDRAWN. STATEMENT BY ARCHBISHOP. (By Telegraph—Press Association. > WELLINGTON, July 10 The Dominion executive of the Bible-in-Schools League yesterday settled finally the form of religious instruction in public schools, enabling the Bill to be presented to Parliament. On the sub-committee's recommendation it was unanimously decided to entrust the measure as a private member's Bill to Mr H. Holland (member for Christchurch North), who introduced the Bill for the League on former occasions. It is" not the desire of the execu live that it should be viewed 'ill any way as a Party measure. In a statement to-day, Archbishop O'Sheu, speaking on behalf of himself and the Metropolitan Archbishop Redwood, who is absent from New Zealand, announces the withdrawal of Catholic opposition to the Bible-in-State-Schools, and support of the present religious Instruction in Public Schools Bill, which, he says, has been submitted to his legal adviser, 4 Mr P. O'Rcgan, who says it does not violate any of the con ditions laid down by the Catholicleaders and accepted last year by the Bill-in-Schools executive. The acceptance of the Bill, according t' the statement, is baked on the 'recognition that the measure is part of the fight against" the spread of irreligion. Archbishop O'Shca says Catholics do not mean to surrender oik iota of their claim on the State for a subsidy to their own religious schools for secular results achieved