BIBLE IN SCHOOLS.
It is significant that tlie Victorian Assembly has negatived a proposal to take a referendum at the next general elections on the question of Biblereading in State Schools. One would have thought that Victoria, the second State in importance in the Commonwealth, with its intimate knowledge of the working of the New South Wales system, would have been glad of the opportunity of taking a referendum if it was satisfied that good results would accrue. Evidently, however,'the Victorian Legislature is so convinced that the system is fraught with peril to the national system of education, that it will not accept the responsibility of permitting, a referendum on the snbject. Apart fromtho question of the right and wrong of the admission of clergymen. ,'t-Q th,e . State schools, there is % Hjest liajperfftftt issue of whether,* tn matters of etthsciebM-,' %M State is warranted in allotting % referendum to be taken, The decision of the Victorian Parliament will doubtless have a considerable influence in determining the issue-when it comes before the New 'Zealand Legislature next year.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 November 1913, Page 4
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175BIBLE IN SCHOOLS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 November 1913, Page 4
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