“ABOVE PARTY INTERESTS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 502, 3 November 1928, Page 10

“ABOVE PARTY INTERESTS”

BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS ISSUE

SUPPORT FOR CANDIDATES

At a meeting of the Auckland Executive of the N.Z. Bible in State Schoob League yesterday, at which his Grae the Archbishop of New Zealand P r *' sided, the following resolutions 've. adopted:— ."MbM (1) Realising that the moral am-, spiritual welfare of a community greater importance than any party “** terests of any political organisatio ■ and that primary consideration in vo - ing should be given to the hignc-well-being of the children, the Lea* Executive calls on all supporters ously to view the high re-sponsion ll1 -*' of the franchise and the duties • Christian citizenship, and to redouD their efforts to secure the election 1 Parliamentary candidates who ha in the past consistently voted—or will pledge their support in the fulu U —for the Religious Exercises Schools Bill, a Bill that has behind '* the overwhelming weight of P uD opinion. . ~.h e (2) It also reminds all who uphold national system of education that provisions of the Religious in Schools Bill make no new in education, being associated *[* *. national systems in many other P» * of the world, and are, in fact. alre * well established in the second • schools of New Zealand. That secondary school system of °P €B S. with religious exercises should he «•- tended to primary schools should occ sion no distrust or fear. (3) It urges all people. reasons stated above, to give at the poll, other things being J to those candidates who have declarein favour of the Religious in Schools Bill.