BIBLE IN SCHOOL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 11 August 1909, Page 53

BIBLE IN SCHOOL.

AUCKLAND, Aiigutt 4. 1 A deputation from tbe Ministers' Association waited on the Education Board asking that a half hour per week be devoted to Bible teaching in schools. They <leclared they could not make any headway by attending after school hours. They did not want denominational instruction, and suggested that the Nelson system should be given a triaL The Chairman of the board said the Education Act distinctly set out secular subjects as those on which instruction should be imparted, and five hours daily •were necessary for the secular syllabus. Mr Bagnall proposed that an extra quarter of an-hour per day be added to the school time, but that was lost. It was decided to reply expressing regret that fhe syllabus would not permit the curtailing of secular school work, and to express eympathy with the work of the association, the board promising to do all it could to forward the wishes of the deputation. A y>ung 6tork liberated is Transylvania, South-east Hun^arv, July 8, 1908. was recently shot ir NataJ. Tho object of the shooting wa.s curiosity a? to -whether bntL of Europe in migration pass bejoud the equator.