ANGLICAN SYNOD.
BIBLE IN SCHOOLS,
'(Pen Pisess AssgcLaUon.} Wellington, last night. Bishop Wallis, in his opening address to the Synod, paid the following was the text of" the proposition to be submitted as a plebiscite on the Bible in schools question: “ Are you favor of the proposal that State I schools shall. be opened, •daily • with, the Lord’s Prayer, and that in the sohools Bible lessons shall be taught children during school hours, subject, to a conscience clause for teaohers and scholars?” This was the only question that would be put forward. Guided by the result of the referendum in Victoria, they wore deter- j mined that if a plebiscite was granted , for I this colony there should be no ambiguity about its significance.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1504, 12 July 1905, Page 2
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