BIBLE IN STATE SCHOOLS.
AN AUCKLAND PROTEST
TPeh Press Association.] Wanganui, May 29
Dr. Cleary, Bishop of Auckland, addressed a large meeting in the Open' House this evening. At the conclusion, Mr Aitken, headmaster of tin Victoria Avenue School, speaking a? a Sunday school teacher of 40 years experience, said that there was n< doubt religious instruction should \>< given in schools, for ignorance of the Bible was lamentable, but he was op posed to school teachers, imparting that instruction. He moved: "That as citizens and taxpayers of this Do minion we pledge ourselves to opposi the scheme of the Bible in SchoolsLeague, as conflicting with the rights of conscience and inimical to the real interests of religion and religion? peace." The motion was carried.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 30 May 1913, Page 5
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124BIBLE IN STATE SCHOOLS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 30 May 1913, Page 5
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