Religious Instruction m Schools.
DEPUTATION TO THE PREMIEB. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) • ... D unedjn, Jan. 26. ■ A deputation, coriSprising Bishop Neville and several clerical and lay representatives" of the Anglican Synod, waited on the Premier to-day to bring .under his! notice a resolution- of the S3'riod asking that the; Education Act should be so . amended fthSt provision .may be mide for religious instru c|ion v ' during <§chopl^ hours by clergymen or persons duly authorised. The Hon. Mr Stout said there wer^e two difficulties m the way of carrying.out the proposal. , He>didi,^iot think if the syllabus were restricted, as he hoped it would be, they could afford to entrench, bri the few, and he did not see how the details' conoid be managed. Personally, hie had no .objection, but he did not see how the time-table could be arranged. He would bring the matter before the Cabinet, and the fullest consideration; wpuld.be: given to it.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 47, 28 January 1885, Page 2
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153Religious Instruction in Schools. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 47, 28 January 1885, Page 2
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