EMPHATIC DENIAL BY FELLOWSHIP LEADER

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 155, 19 July 1937, Page 4

EMPHATIC DENIAL BY FELLOWSHIP LEADER

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CHEISTCNUBCH, Last Night, . "I must make complete and categorical denial of the suggestion," Rektor L. Zilliacus, leader of New Education Fellowship Conferenee,; said when he was told thig evening of Father Timoney 's statement. {Nobody made the slightest suggcstion to us that we should adopt such an attitudo. We have been aware and been greatly pleased to see so many men and women in holy orders attending meetings and taking an extremeiy intelligent and active part in them. The other delegates must also have noticed their presenee as I have. "We have not mentioncd .the work of any group of sehools in particular in our remarks, becajise we have not regarded it as our funetion to pass comment on any group of institntlons or, indeed, On any part of the system of education here. If any of our delegates had been asked a direct question on this or any other subjeet, we would have been quite willing to go into it. Possibly Father Timoney has misunderstood a , comment I made in oue inte,rview when I remarked that We had been warned by our New Zealand hosts that the question of the Bible-in-Schools Movement was at the moment highly. controversial, but so far as I am aware no oue of" us has received any suggestion that we should not speak of the work of Boman Catholic sehools. 1 ' Unf ortunately, except for one member, nono of us has had an opportunity of following the work in any of the sehools since laQding in New Zealand, owing to lack of time. Under these circurqstances it is still more obvious that we would not comment."