BISHOP LISTON’S VIEWS
THE UPPER HOUSE DEBATE [ Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 14. The following statement in regard to the Legislative Council debate on the Religious Instruction in Schools Enabling Bill was made by Bishop Liston, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, to-night. “Sir Janies Allen is reported to have said in the Legislative Council ou Wednesday that the majority of the Catholic Hierarchy was in favour of the measure. If Sir Janies is correctly reported his statement is contrary to favt. The Archbishop of Wellington and the Bishops of Christchurch, Dunedin, and Auckland are in charge of the Catholic Church in New Zealand and they have in public pronouncements jointly and severally recorded their emphatic protest against any of the Bills produced by supporters of the Bible-in-Schools movement, and if Sir James has made the statement attributed to him 1 trust he will now correct it. publicly. “The Hon. L. M. Isitt is reported to have said that; the Catholics, in agreeing to the Bill, had promised not. to press for State grants. Let it be said that the Catholics will >dadly follow the guidance of their Bishops in this matter and that these bishops have not agreed to the Bill and have made no promises in public or in private to
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 244, 15 October 1932, Page 8
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