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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 272, 19 July 1878, Page 14

vering in maintaining Christian schools. Why, don't you see, says this Memorandum, as clearly as possible, that your love for Christian education closes against you all avenues to preferment. Not only is the department of education closed against you, but all the departments under the control of the Government. And this is the fact, no matter what view may be taken of the Memorandum.

But this will not frighten Catholics. They are determined that their children shall not be subjected to that godless system of education which only succeeds in rearing subjects dangerous to the State, recruits to the ranks of Communism and Socialism, and aliens to all Christian faith and hope. And it is only a paltry Government that could fancy that Catholics could be frightened into disloyalty to all their principles through fear that half-a-dozen or so Catholic boys should lose the chance of being scavengers or messengers in some public office.