MR. HOLMAN & THE N.S.W. SYSTEM

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2179, 18 June 1914, Page 6

MR. HOLMAN & THE N.S.W. SYSTEM

(To tho Editor.) Sir,—ln a sub-leader in your issuo of -Thursday, June 4, you si>eak of -"some very- impressive first-hand testimony by people who are in an exceptionally favourable position to speak with authority as to the working of the New South Wales system:" And 1 go on to say that Mr. Holman, tho Labour Premier of New South Wales, told an interviewer in Auckland that "If there is one.thing everyone takes for granted in ..New South Wales it is the Uible-in-Statc-schools system." Yon add that" "such a'statement from such a source cannot bo lightly sot aside by any open-niiudijtfc-person," and that "here wo havo . . . . the Labour Premier of tlie State in which tho system has been longest in operation . . .' . .declaring, .tbjtt it is working well." On the morning of the day on which Mr. Holman sailed for Sydney he explained in my presence, in the course of iv conversation upon Biblc-in-Stato schools, in which I, among others, was taking part, that he had been misreporled in Auckland, and had already done what ho could to make it quite clear that he had not_ said either that be was in favour of religious instruction in State schools or that the so-called Now South AVales system worked well. As secular education is part of the Labour Party's'programme, it is difficult to imagine tho leader of that party in Now South Wales making any such statement as you.credit him with.—l cm, etc., M. ENGLAND.