Catholic Public Servants.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 51, 19 December 1901, Page 1

Catholic Public Servants.

In the contest for the Caversham seat, there has been revived, for partisan purposes, and in a peculiarly bitter and offensive form, the lately organised Orange cry as to the alleged ' stuffing ' of the public service with an overwhelmingly large percentage of those unspeakable ' Romanists.' Local public offices having been singled out for a special anathema maranatha, we made it our business to inquire minutely into the real tacts of the matter, so far as they are concerned, and with results that are stated elsewhere in our present is->ue. We are, as far as our opportunities permit, pursuing the inquiry into every branch of the public service ; and, as this legend is likely to be heard of in the near future in other parts of New Zealand, we shall be grateful to all of our clerical and lay friends who will be good enough to aid us in our investigation by forwarding to us information as to the total and relative numbers, position, and pay, of Catholic public servants in thtir towns, cities, or districts.