The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6,1914. SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELECTIONS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 May 1914, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6,1914. SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELECTIONS.

The annual school committee elections are to be held next Thursday evening. Householders should esteem it their duly to attend theso gatherings. There are prospects that in Levin this year there will be no lack oi public interest, for (he tocsin has been sounded in various quarters, two "tickets'' are being circulated, and a keen contest is certain. The outgoing committee lias done its duty well, and amongst its records is a substantial credit balance, notwithstanding expenditure on the annual school picnic, foreshadowed for so many years but left anacliieved until 1 !)!•'!. Affairs at the school have gone on uneventfully, and for this fact there is reason to be pleased, ihese being troublous times socially as well as politically, with fermenting forces at work which at any time may erupt, ;md in so doing dissipate the air of calmness normally characteristic of New Zealand's public bodies and institutions. Lately there has appeared oir the horizon an enlarging cloud which yet may burst in disconcerting manner. We refer to the widespread movement for the introduction of Bible Reading and Bible Teaching into the public schools. At present we have no desire to traverse the argument's for and against the proposed referendum nor to touch upon the general principle: what we "are" concerned about is to have the issue kept out of the school committee elections as far as possible. There is no real nee.l introducing such a sour» e <>£ d V sention info school comnvMee elections, and for the sake of civic amity it is to be hopel tlr't the admirable precedent" established last year, so far as Levin was concerned. will be foil owe 1 and extended. An assurance to that effect from the various candidates would be timely.