BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.
AUCKLAND DEMONSTRATION.
WELLINGTON, Tuesday,
The Bible-in-Schools League demonstration in the Auckland Town Hall was preceded by a monster procession nearly half a mile long, /- containing three, bands. Twenty banners were displayed. The speaekrs comprised Mrs Powley, Colonel of the Salvation Army, who declared that the women of Nevr Zealand should send a message to Parliament that they could not be ignored: Rev. C. IT. Laws; Bishop Averill who said the League had fulfilled the condition laid down by Mr Seddori, who would have given the referendum if he had been alive; Rev. W. A. Keay, Congregational minister, every one of whose congregation favoured the t guc, and Mr N. A. McKenzie, of Schools, who strongly advocated tiffed.. demands of the League, speaking, not. as a member of the League, but as an educationalist. „ The enthusiastic meeting was unanimously in favour of the resolution asking the Government to grant the referendum.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11976, 13 May 1914, Page 4
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