ANGLICAN CHURCH.
AUCKLAND DIOCESAN SYNOD. By Telegraph.—'Press Association. Auckland, Oet. 18. In his charge to the Diocesan Synod, which opened to-day, Bishop Averill said that as the Government was not prepared to modify the Education Act, the only jilternatiYe was the establishment of church schools wherever possible. It would he necessary to" establish a diocesan fund to supplement the school | fees and secure fully qualified teachers, jn order to maintain a standard of secular teaching equal to State schools. . Referring to the liquor question, Bishop Averill said the synod would be asked to express an opinion regarding the National Efficiency Board's recommendations. "The report of the" Efficiency .Board should be carefully studied, for it is not the production of narrow-minded fanatics, but of sane public men who have based their judgment upon a considerable amount of evidence. The questions we have to put to our consciences are: Is liquor a necessity or a luxury? Does it make for efficiency or against it? Is it helping us to win the war? Will it help to make us efficient after the war * > Is it strengthening our returned soldiers and assisting in their repatriation ? is it not the duty o" the strong to sacrifice themselves for the weak? "Few of us, 1 think, are satisfied witli things-as they are, and most desire to see some drastic reform in the liquor traffic; but can we hope for any real reform until the present system is abolished? if, alter trying the experiment of prohibition, we' are dissatisfied with the results, we shall have the opportunity of restoring the manufacture and rale of liquor on some better basis. There are throe points on which T wish to be assured: (1) Will all soldiers at the front have an opportunity of recording their votes? (2) Will alcohol be obtainable for medicinal purposes? (3) Will any attempt be made to provide a substitute for the present social and fellowship side of hotel life?. If we take it away, what do we intend to put in its place?" |
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1918, Page 8
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339ANGLICAN CHURCH. Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1918, Page 8
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