Probe today of sect’s schools

August 4, 1993: | Press | Colin Espiner | The Ministry of Education will today investigate two schools run by the Cooperite Christian sect. The police have advised the ministry that two schools, one of which is a kindergarten, are operating without a licence at the Cust Christian Community’s Haupiri property in north…

Education ‘inadequate’

August 4, 1993: | Press | Children in the. Cooperite communities should receive their education in an ordinary school, says a former sect member. Mr Mel Hansen, whose children were taught by the Cooperite school at Cust, said yesterday that he hoped the Ministry of Education’s investigation into the sect’s Haupiri schools would…