BIBLE IN SCHOOLS
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1 • Devotional Exercises Sanctioned
(By Telegraph-
WELLINGTON, This Day. A deputation from the New Zealand Bible-in-Schools League this morning asked the Wellington Education Board to sanction five minutes3 devotional exercises in school time, a prayer, hymn and scripture reading. A subsequent deputation from the Wellington Headmasters' Association and representatives of the Wellington district branches of the New Zealand Educational Institute raised strenuous objection to the proposal, the main point being that unless there was a" State Church in New Zealand and a State reiigion, teachers sliould not be placed in the position of having to act as religious teachers, which was the duty being shirked by parents and those responsible for religious teaching — i.e., the churches. It was pointed out that a recent primary school teachers5 conference opposed such an mnovation by a large majority. By nine votes to five the board decided to alter its by-laws to permit school committees to allow five minutes5 devotional exercises each morning in accordance with the request of the Bible-in-Schools League.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 128, 16 June 1937, Page 5
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