COUNCIL OF CHURCHES
GAMBLING AND OTHER MATTERS (Per Press Association.) Wellington, last night. A meeting of the Council of Churches approved of the action of the Senate of (he University of New Zealand in determining to grant degrees in divinity. It resolved
I to asknewspaper proprietors to refuse publication of notice of Tattersall’s sweeps, I and also to ask candidates for Wellington
bye-election their views with regard to abolishing the totalisator. Consideration I of the Chief Justice’s remarks on gambling I was deferred until tbe full test of His I
Honor’s remarks were before the Council, l Tbe Rev. Dr Gibba, who has taken a lead- I ingpart on the Bible in schools question, has submitted the following questions to I candidates for Uyo-c)ection : —“ln tbe I name of the osecutivo of the Bible in
Schools’ League, I ask if you are prepared to trust the people to settle the question of 'ho introduction of the Bible into S ate schools, and to this end will you support h special Bible in Schools . ill ? ”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1416, 29 March 1905, Page 2
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174COUNCIL OF CHURCHES Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1416, 29 March 1905, Page 2
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