DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 September 1918, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

IMON OF CHURCHES' By Telegraph. —Press Association. i Dunedin, Last Night, Tlis Presbytery to-day decided, on the overture 01 this General Assembly, to take the subject of church union into serious consideration, and take steps to inaugurate a. definite government aiming at the union of the Presbyterian, Mctho- | dist, and Congregational Churches in I\ T ew Zealand, and such other Christian churches as may find it possible (o come together on the basis of a common creed and common polity. The Presbytery has also decided to protest 'emphatically against the action of the New Zealand censor in prohibiting Dr. Alexander Robertson's book on the Roman Catholic Church in Italy, -which received a laudatory reception from the King of Italy and from the Premier, Signor Lamardielii. who characterised the book as a scholarly work which he highly prized, and to request the immediate withdrawal cf the prohibition. SHIPPING PROSPECTS. Wellington, Sept. 4. The Hon. D. H. Guthrie states that there are indications of a further improvement with regard to" shipping. New Zealand will probably have loading between now and the end of the year of at least 18 steamers of full average capacity, TECHNICAL DIRECTORS' CONFERENCE. 1 Wellington, Sept. 4. At the conference of directors of technical schools it was decided to recommend the National Effiieucy Board to urge the Minister of Eduation to set up n. committee of educationalists to act with the Efficiency Board in an inquiry, the object of which would be to recommend such changes as might be deemed necessary. ■ It was resolved that the Minister of Education be asked to institute a Dominion grading scheme and Dominion scale of salaries for manual training teachers. | It was decided that the Minister be urged to devise some method of preventing the present overlapping in the [courses of instruction provided in university colleges, secondary schools, and technical schools. It was resolved that advice should be offered to tiie department as to the scheme whereby prospective secondary and technical school' teachers would be encouraged and enabled to take courses of training pedagogical and technical. ALLEGED SEDITIOUS UTTERANCE. Wairoa, Sept. 4. At the S.M. Court to-day the local bar tendered a welcome to the new S.M., Mr. Barton, who replied in suitable terms. A farmer named T. Bomley was charged with publishing in the bar of the Wairoa Hotel a seditious statement, to wit: "I hope the (obscene word) Huns will come here and beat you and the Massey crowd. The Huns would make as good bosses as Humphry Bayly." Owing to the illness of defendant's counsel the case was adjourned for a month under a surety of £IOO to appear ou October ■o.