MEETING AT WAIPORL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 325, 11 July 1879, Page 13

MEETING AT WAIPORL

At a meeting of Catholics held at Waiporl it was agreed that Mr. Reynolds be appointed to represent them at the Catholic moeting to be held in Dunedin on July Bth, to object to the stcular system of education imposed on Catholics in New Zealand. In conjunction with their fellow-Catholics they feel themselves aggrieved by the education law of this country, which compels them to sand their children to the State schools against the dictates of their consciences, or to incur the great expense of supporting their own schools after contributing to the revenue of the State. They likewise consider it unfair to be compelled to pay for schools that they cannot conscientiously send their children to. * They think the Government should consider their cauße, and meet their wishes, not only in giving them aid in accordance with their numbers, but in erecting schools likewise, because Catholics think their childrem require Catholic education in Catholic schools for their spiritual and temporal welfare, since if they are not taught to obey the laws of God, they will not be likely to obey those of man.