BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 9017, 17 March 1908, Page 5

BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS.

DISCUSSION BY HAWKES' BAY

EDUCATION BOARD,

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

NAPIER, This Day.

The question of Bible in Schools was discussed by the Education Board last night. The matter was brought up by the ihs'pectorsy' who asked for the Board's actual intentions, in. : .re., spoct to .he following:—-..lie teaching in schools shall be for five hours daily ;for five days in every week, except that in preparatory classes it shall bi_ for four hours only. (1) Does teaching cover secular instruction only in the subjects enumerated in sections 135 and 170 of the Education Compilation Act? (2) Would the regulation be met by taking out of the five hours on on© day a week half-an-hour for religious instruction, say from 9 to 9.30 a.m.? \d) As preparatory classes are limited to a school day of four hours, is . it> compet. ut for a school committee to extend the school day for these classes for religious" classes for - religious instruction, and would teachers be justified in telling their pupils to attend school for such instruction. ?

The Board, after a lengthy discussion, answered the'first question in the affirmative, and the second and third in the negative.