BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS PLEDGE CARDS
QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT. The pledge,cards now being circulated for signatures by the Bible-in-State-Schools League were referred to by Mr. Q. A. Wilkinson, M.P., • in Parliament: yesterday, when lie asked the Attorney-' General (Hon. A. L. 'Herdman)'in the House of Representatives whether 1 the Minister's attention had been drawn to tho cards being 'circulated by the league. These cards, ho thought, might 'act adversely in connection with the Parliamentary elections. What, tho signatories were asked to declare was that having signed the card requesting Parliament to grant a referendum on the question of religious instruction in schools, they would.at next election, in. the event of the referendum not being granted "by Parliament in 1914, place the Biblc-in-Schools Referendum before all'political party issues.. Mr. Wilkinson asked .the Attorney-General whether any action would be taken to slop what seemed to- him an undesirable practice. .' ' / The Hon. A. L. Hcrdman said ho would prefer not to give an answer to the ■ questiot) off-hand, and asked; the honourable member to put the question on the Order Paper. The Hon. R. M'Kcnzie: Isn't it breach of privilege? . PETITIONS OF PROTEST. Several more petitions from opponents of tho Bible-in-Schoois Referendum Bill were presented to the House yesterday. The total number of signatures to these petitions to data is 60,241.
: Professor Mackenzie, secretary of the Schools' .Defence League, writes contradicting certain statements in an article published as an advertisement in oiir columns as to the attitude of his league towards the Bible. Wo cannot undertake to open our columns to correspondence rolating to advertisement matter, hut it is only fair to stato that tho Defence League is not opposed to a purely voluntary system of Bible lessons in schools (supplementary of tbo existing national secular system), provided that tliero is no compulsion of any kind. ' ' '
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2215, 30 July 1914, Page 4
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300BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS PLEDGE CARDS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2215, 30 July 1914, Page 4
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