Carntall and Rongahere

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5, 1 February 1906, Page 19

Carntall and Rongahere

Irish justices and judges .visit with a legal anathema maranatha, and long imprisonment, combinations among farmers, laborers, and traders in the South and West of the Green Isle to establish a boycott against those whom they deem to be active enemies to their common interests. But a recent judgment of the Irish Court of Appeal in the Carntall school scandal lays it down as perfectly lawful to boycott a Catholic public school teacher in Ulster, and ruin her in her profession, siYnply and solely because of her religious belief. The teacher in question was appointed as sewing-mis-tress by a Presbyterian clergyman who is manager of the Carntall National school, which is frequented by children of every creed. After her appointment, it was discovered that she was a Catholic. To his credit, the clergyman stood by the young lady. But the local Orange body decreed the boycott, which was carried out with the accompaniment s of coarse savagery that recalls in a milder way Ihe series of filthy outrages that made Miss Anneft flee from the bigots of Rongahere (Otago) in order to save her life. ,Miss Annett's little property had already been destroyed by the brand of the incendiary. The » judgment of the Irish Court of Appeal on the Carntall school case is still to be reviewed by the House of Lords.