IRISH UNIVERSITIES BILL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 146, 19 June 1908, Page 5

IRISH UNIVERSITIES BILL.

ARCHBISHOPS' MANIFESTO. MTJCH MORE REQUIRED. LONDON. June 18. The Roman Catholic Archbishops of Ireland Have issued a statement in reference to the Dish Universities Bill. They declare that a bill constructed on a plan suited to the country's need would -be likely to lead to finality, and go on to say: "It is regrettable, as one of the evils incidental to the present system of legislation for Ireland, that the provisions relating to the University of Dublin and its colleges were not framed in accordance with the convictions of a Roman Catholic nation. "We believe that within the fundamental conditions which the Government must accept much more might and ought to be done to meet legitimate requirements. Headmasters of secondary schools should be represented on the governing body of provincial colleges. In regard to the University College about to be established in Dublin, if the determination that it is not to be residential is persevered in the consequence may be disastrous from the moral and religious equally with the educational standpoint. It is indefensible to throw hundreds of youths into the streets of Dublin side by side with the splendid provision made at the cost of the Irish nation for the Protestant colleges."