TEMPERANCE TEACHING IN SCHOOLS.
Minister of Education Interviewed. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 23. A dcputuiion. representing the Women's Christian Tempsian'-s Union wailed on tho Minister of I'dncation to-day with the request that scientific temperance teaching slruild. bs; made a compulsory subject in the public schools Tho Minister, in reply, pointed cut that the deputation apparently did not realise that the subject was compulsory. He quoted, from syllabus for standards 3 to 5 to dhow that moral instruction had to be givc-n. Moral instruction relating to the body and mind and "temperance in eating and driuking" and "evil and unhealthy subjects." If the work was not being done in the school* the syllabus waa not being carried out. The Minister had no more power to enforce the syllabus than the president of the W.C.T.U. and Parliament would not give power.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12726, 23 March 1909, Page 7
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141TEMPERANCE TEACHING IN SCHOOLS. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12726, 23 March 1909, Page 7
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