CATHOLICS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1056, 8 February 1913, Page 3

CATHOLICS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Per Press Association. Auckland, February 5, The Catholic Bißhop of Auckland, Dr. Cleary, again approached the Aucklad Education Board to urge that scholarships offered by the Board should also be tenable at the Sacred Heart College as well as •at the Grammar School or King's College. The Bishop's l<?.r?"r m the Board is as follows: —"I hereby once more request your Board to be good enough to accept the Sacred Heart College, Ponsonby. as a 'equivalent' secondary school for the tenure of scholarships in accordance with the provisions of the amended Education Act, 1910. Your committee has in its possession a very favourable report of the Education Department's inspectors, and the extended accommodation required by them in the science room has been completed and is now open any time for inspection by the Board. I take the opportunity of placing before the Board the following fruther considerations: —l. The payment of scholarship allowance is made not to the school but to the parents of the holder of a scholarship; (2)- the payment is not made for denominational or religious education, but for secular instruction only, under the control and inspection of the State; (3) public money has been given by way of scholarships to two denominational schools,' the Wanganui Collegiate School and Christ College, Christchureh, for more than thirty years; (4) public money has been paid for several years past to a number of denominational schools in the Dominion for scholarships to , Maori children; (5) public money is paid by way of scholarships and bursaries to denominational schools in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria; (6) the following Education Boards have granted the tenure of scholarships to denominational schools in the Dominion : Grey, North Canterbury. Wanganui and Taranaki. The last-named allowed an Inglewood boy to transfer his scholarship to St. Patrick's College, Wellington; (7) the Minister of Education has repeatedly stated that denomiational schools have only to prove efficiency to have the privilege of having scholarship holders as pupils. In tne case of the Sacred Heart College, its efficiency is sufficiently evidenced by the inspector's report already mentioned, and by the fact that one of its pupils was first in Class B in this year's Education Board scholarships and another seventh. I apply for the tenure of both scholarships in the Sacred Heart College. " The Board received the Bishop's letter and declined the application.