PEACE ASSOCIATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 19 December 1907, Page 2

PEACE ASSOCIATION.

Mr W. Drew, president of the New Plymouth branch of the Peace Association, drawing' attention to the fuel; at last meeting of the Education Board

that fpr the tci\ years 22nd, February lias been observed throughout tlio world as "Peace Day," and that of late I years at all events the have been by no means confined to the Peace organisations, an incasing number of religions, educational, political, and other hodies having taken part in tlipm. "It is universally recognised that the preservation of peace is an object of the llrst public importance, as its achievement depends' on the diffusion of a peace-loving spirit among the peoples of tin? world, I would venture to ask | your Hoard to recommend to the teachers of (lie schools under its control the attention of their pupils to the occasion, either by giving a special lesson, or in any other of the methods usimllv adopted for celebrating important anniversaries which may be considered suitable; this is to bo done on 21st February next, as~ February 22nd falls -on a Saturday." The covering letter from >lr "As history is so much macte~iip with the record of war, and battle scenes are so prominent in illustrated bonks and periodicals, it seems to be eminently desirable that the yontb of our land should be impressed with the thought of the more ,splendid nnd desirable triumphs of p-aee." The .Education, Board, however, merely ordered that the letter slionld Ho on the table. ■ j

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