MARIST BROS. AND THE WAR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17065, 25 July 1917, Page 5

MARIST BROS. AND THE WAR

PLEA FOR EXEMPTION. (From Oxje Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, July 24. Ihe position of Marist brothers in relation to military service formed tho subject of an address by the Rev. Father Edge (Huntly) at a meeting in St. Patrick's Cathedral. Referring to the Marist brothers, Father Jidge said there were 49 members of this and a kindred society of Irish origin in the dominion, 14 of them being in the diocese of Auckland. , Nino of the number were over military age, and of the remaining two score he doubted if a dozen would pass the medical test. Although a dozen would make no difference to the military department, the removal of this number would totally destroy some of the Catholic boys' schools, for it would be impossible to replace these men now or in the near future. They were in New Zealand solely through their zeal for the education of the boys for had they wished to do eo their superiors could have withdrawn all of them before compulsory service became law. They were practising' a self-sacrifice unparalleled in New Zealand outside the religious life of the Catholic Church. Father Edgo expressed the opinion that the Government would do a great wrong, if it took away tie Marist brothers or any other teachers so long as they were efficient.

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