RELIGION IN SCHOOLS
BILL BEFORE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL THE VICTORIAN SYSTEM Press Association WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Religious teaching in schools was discussed in the Legislative Council today, when the Hon. G. M. Thomson moved the second reading of his Education Amendment Bill, proposing to Introduce a system of religious instruction into public schools, on the lines of the Victorian system. Mr. Thomson strongly advocated religious teaching in schools, and said if they could not get the whole loaf they should accept half, and the measure provided for that. Subject to some modifications the Victorian system could be applied here. It was proposed that the teaching should be secular in the sense of non-sectarian. He proposed that the system should operate by Act of Parliament instead of by regulation, as in Victoria. It would not alter the essential character of the present education system. The Hon. W. W. Snodgrass spoke of the benefits of the Nelson system, and supported the Bill for the good it would do.
The Hon. G. Witty condemned the measure as unnecessary while the Nelson system was doing such good work. The teaching should be left to the clergy. The debate was adjourned.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 754, 29 August 1929, Page 7
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