CLERGY AND CONSCRIPTION.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 528, 23 February 1917, Page 3

CLERGY AND CONSCRIPTION.

CATHOLIC HIkOLUTION.S. (Per Press Association.) _ AUCKLAND, Feb. 22. e. t a ini-ethig ca!!o:l iu connection wit'i the convention ot the Catholic Federation the following resolutions nero carried; “That in order to pi'odi.f > I'.'rbi'.. iyp > of citizenship tho aiiri. nr (’riholic ideal of the comhinatio i ol teora! .-md religions training with secolar insmiction is the host; “That in view of this fact it is unreasonable that the conscientious objections A’ any religious body to a purely srculai- system of education should deprive ilieiu of Stale assistance in the ir:iinine of their ehililreu while they me (•;}!’<".! im-ia to hear their shai'o of taxation and n. il'onu c-D'ei’ full duties as (iti/.-iis: i “'lhat this inaeting tluvefora urges the (invrniment to t,-ik{- such stiq>s as will relieve ok sevenP> of our populatio!’. from ('•!> double burden of building and e juiupitm i'u-h- own schools, and at the same time paying tor sehools they cannot in conscience make use of; “Thai Lite meeting thanks the Federation for what it has already done, and uledgos itself to support whatever steps the 'Federation may think advisable to t.ake for the removal of Catholic L^ioVlUlfOH. '-'j— —• A NHNISTEHIAL STATEMENT. WELLINGTON, Feb. 22. ■■J give that statement an _ emphatic denial,'’ saitl the lion. C. Y. Bussed (Minister for Internal Affairs) to-nignt, with reference to a statement to the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce by MiSmith that he knew of a case where the Government informed a race club that if it. suspended its meetings lor the duration of the «ar it would forfeit its permit. •’Several racing clubs in New Zealand,’’ added the Minister, “one at Cheviot, another at- Kaikoura, it third I think in Central Otago, anil a hunt, club in Canterbury have notified the Government that they do not propose to race while the war is on, and in each case they asked whether they would hy this course forfeit their right to a permit for tho use of the totalisator when the war is over, in no ease lias any pledge or promise boon given hy the Government except this, that the closing down of race meetings during Hits war, which ] as Minister for Internal Affairs heartily appreciate and congratulate them upon, will not prejudice their right to a tot-nlisator permit alter the war is over.' 1