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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 40

Report of Southland Board

Report of Southland Board.

In the Education Report for 1880 (H.—Ia.), presented to Parliament on the 5th June, 1880, by the Hon. the Minister for Education, the following paragraph appears on page 85, in the report of the Southland Education Board for the year ending 31st December, 1879—

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"The Bible-in-Schools.—This question was brought before the Board, at a meeting held on the 6th June, and, after considerable discussion, a motion was carried almost unanimously, declaring it to be the opinion of the Board that the Bible should be read daily in the puplic schools without comment. Copies of this motion were forwarded to the Government, and also to all the School Committees, accompanied in the latter case by a request that they should give an expression of their opinion on the subject. Of the 55 committees then existing, 37 expressed themselves in favour of the resolution, and 8 against it. The remaining 10 were either neutral or failed to make any return."