BIBLE READING IN SCHOOLS
A LEAGUE IN OPPOSITION.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night.
At a public meeting, attended by between forty and fifty, it was decided to form a Secular Education Defence League to secure the maintenance of purely secular education. The platform states that to introduce any form of religious instruction, in schools would be detrimental to the best interests of the schools, leading to sectarian strife among the children, and imposing a religious. test upon teachers. To determine the question of religious instruction or Bible reading by a referendum would be subversive to' the neutrality of the State. The Nelson system is an ingenious evasion of the (real spirit and intent of the system. The League is opposed to the introduction of the New South Wales text book.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 211, 15 December 1910, Page 5
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131BIBLE READING IN SCHOOLS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 211, 15 December 1910, Page 5
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