SCHOOL REFERENDUM ADVOCATED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 70, 19 April 1909, Page 4

SCHOOL REFERENDUM ADVOCATED.

To tin* KJiror. 1 Sir,- -1 h tlx? majority of (Tit' *lay| m-IkjoU of t)w I'nittil Saitis, (/amfc'a.j (Jermaiiy. <jreat Uritaiji, Austria. S\vit-

zerland, and South Africa, the Bible is road daily, lint New Zealand Ims banisheil the Bible (rain the Slate schools some 3i5 years ago, with the. result that there arc a great percentage of young men, native hum, in our gaol*, besides the effects seen in other directions. Parents who desire to see their children gel the highest possible training durmg the short school life, are urged to work for the restoration uf the Bible lu our schools by attending the annual niceti..g of householders on .Monday, 2(ith inst, and only voting fur candidates who ar pledged to get the school eomnmtee to take a local referendum on Bible reading. If a public hall has been engaged for the annual meeting, two blackboards should be provide!!, one for the list of candidates who are for referendum on Bible readihg, ami the other for the list of those against referendum. Wives of householders can vote at the above meeting. The referendum can be easily taken with the aid of the children, each parent to have supplied within thirty days a .voting paper with the following questions thereon, to be signed and returned:—"(l) 1 agree to allow my chili •to take part in a daily Bible reading at the State school. (2) 1 objleet Ito'my child taking part in a daily Bible reading at the State school." Voters to cms, oil the clause they object to. If Hi--* •2000 school committees in the Dominion find parents are favorable, Parliament will be approached this session.—f mn, etc., S. PEARSON. Wellington, April 15.