CATHOLICS AND SCHOLARSHIPS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 13 December 1912, Page 7

CATHOLICS AND SCHOLARSHIPS.

SPEECH BY BISHOP GRIMES

A BBOAD HINT.

(Per Press Association.) OHRISTOHUROH, Dpo. IS. The fact that Education Board scholarships cannot ibe held at Oatho'lic Collegeefwias referred to 'by Bishop Grimes in an address at the presentation of prizes this afternoon. Bis Lordship said that Catholic children were generally loyal to their alma mater, yet though they strove hard to obtain free places, these could not ibe worked put at their own school. He did not think that it wias ever intended that this conditon of affairs should exist. At least two iGovennors had«bald ham that cansidexed it a great act of inj^ustdce. "I see only one way out of it," hie Lordship continued, "and that is for the Government to say -what really should be done. "We should mot be bound down to go through the undignified proceeding of begging from Education Boards wihat Tvehave a light to have otherwise. I suppose, though. w« a,re loyal people, <we shall have to use the powerful weapon of agitation in this question in an electoral or other campaign. We assist in electing members of Education Boards, and though, we have kept 'free from these eleetfioms, we have only to cay the word, and we know what Catholics will do."