RELIGION AND EDUCATION.
A CHRISTCHURCH-PROTEST. Q3y Tclcrranh-Prcss Association.) Gliristchurcli, March 3. A letter was read at the. meeting of tlio Board of .Governors of..the Christ-, church ; Technical College / from tlio parent of a student, objecting to Bible 'reading and tlio saying of ..the Lord's .Prayer:'prior to the classes- starting. He protested tliat this was illegal, and stated that his' object in writing was to prevent' anything taking placo which would interfere with the- secular eduea--tion of the children. ■ He. had received a letter from a. committed-of'tho board to tile effcct-that ho' pupil was, or had been, ""'required to'attend •'prayer and Bible reading, and that y tlio practice had tlio approval of the committee. Mr. Rushbfidge, one of tho members of tho board, mado a strong protest against the practice, but a motion lie moved rev questing tho director to discontinue tho practico was unseconded.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19110304.2.19
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1067, 4 March 1911, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
144RELIGION AND EDUCATION. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1067, 4 March 1911, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. 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 Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in