THE REV. W. A. KEAY AND MUDDLED STATISTICS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2153, 20 May 1914, Page 8

THE REV. W. A. KEAY AND MUDDLED STATISTICS.

Sir,--Oiie would hay? tliousriif tint ihe Kov. U. A, Jveay wouki have reonrded it as liis botuiden duty to apolQcvise to your renders (and t> o public of ,Y o w Zealand .ewerally) for the niiskndinii. use he nvrd other agentr- of tho Bibk-.i-M< Sntols Party have, in their Itastc- Made tlioif muddled and unsifted sfatis-ifes! Ho twe-fcfs to crloricl tlto issno In- a $eHos of "nrfrunienta nd hominem" n.iici of kbmired ij iMos nicies Had Ire jx.,s CaußhJey's letter iDomixk-.n:. 3r a y gl before ivtto.tiipt.iug to dent with icr ami my coiimuitfetimi regarding his "muddied statistics," lie wo-uk] not have venttircd to pose as an autWitv on the bistery of Victoria or its "blarft pntck" in caniicstion with which he is as wide of tte mark jis he ivas iu tl.ie ntnttor of New .Zealand 'criminal statistics! As for Principal Adeiiev (whose acftuaiptriiieo I was priyilened 'o oiaivc rccnitlv), I can eninlwucaHv nflirjii IJijit (111 favour ef niWe in schools as he is) bo would bo no party to-*— 3. Imposing part of the oost of ;sueli religious ii-jstiuctio-.i.i -on cl.isseiitinp; iiiiiiorities. 2. Demaiulins; the right of entry for the clergy of tic various Churches (iiirin.c; the hours of compulsory attendance. 8. Refusing to provide a conscience eiai.tse for teachers. Mr. Keay eaitnot bo ipiiorant of the fact that such cfis'taH.fruished ri> preseniativos of .VoHrenformity as SilW.'geon, J)r. Dale, I'ri'nripai Fairlvatrnj Principal Hoiltteriion, fir. Pajke-r, cte., etc., were, staunch ilofcuders.af the secular solution, so far as tho Htate is con--., <:onie<l. [I -HiKle-ritike. to Hit coluintis af Tin: Do.mikmn with their "views" &i) tho snbjoct.l Sir Wilkin Rolwitson XicoU affirni.s his wnvistion- that -in Ejißlaud ihoro will be educational ' unrest until the inevitable goal (that nr a State see-u, b.r system) is attaii'ieil." A recent nvuuH( i r ov u T!u> C]ni§jvn;ii r orkl" cftiiiained the followingWe want t« say ivt once that not eveii for T.-ord Haklaue c,nd ill! his colwacues would wo eonjoni to tho rifiht- oi entry i» the Sta.te ftiu. ot:c,, ' lirail IfACKENZIK. May IV, 193-1. ■