PRAYERS IN SCHOOLS
OTAGO CONTROVERSY VIEWS OF CHAIRMAN (By TelFffrap’i —-serial » iu»«> DUNEDIN. Thursday. The Otago Education Board this morning opened its proceedings wi*h the Lord’s Prayer. The chairman, Mr James Wallace, said ihe education boards and =chool committees were much closer in touch with public opinion in this matter than the Education Department, and the Government was ridiculous in maintaining that the Education Act should continue to say the instruction must be of a secular chaiacter when the public wanted it otherwise. The board hoped that head teachers. where the schools did not pen with devotional excrci.es, would
\ adopt the board's recommendation. - : not instruction, that the school day n | may be commenced with the Lord's j j Prayer.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21247, 18 October 1940, Page 9
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119PRAYERS IN SCHOOLS Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21247, 18 October 1940, Page 9
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