WILL NOT BE APPROVED.
Compulsory Attendance at Sunday School.
(“Star” Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, July 18.
There have been measures before Parliament for compulsory registration of stock remedies, compulsory registration of poultry and compulsory dehorning of cattle, but it has been left to the Hon R. M’Callum, in the Legislative Council, to promote a Bill providing for the compulsory attendance of children at Sunday school. The measure seeks to empower the Minister of Education or school committee to allow the use of school buildings for the purpose of moral and religious instruction, and to provide for the compulsory attendance of children at the Sunday school, if any, of the denomination to which their parents belong.
It is proposed to give the managing body of a Sunday school the light to appoint truant officers, with powers similar to those now held by truant officers of the State. It can be forecast now that the Bill has not the slightest chance of being passed by Parliament.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19340719.2.190
Bibliographic details
Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20361, 19 July 1934, Page 16
Word Count
163WILL NOT BE APPROVED. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20361, 19 July 1934, Page 16
Using This Item
Star Media Company Ltd is the copyright owner for the Star (Christchurch). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Star Media. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.