A Petition

New Zealand Tablet, 11 October 1906, Page 22

A Petition

We understand that a petition for the inspection of convents— engineered (if we are rightly informed) by the usual dark-lantern associations— was recently presented to Parliament. The scroll shared the customary fate of, such petitions.. It was not favored even with a mention, honorable or dishonorable, by the secular press. A prayer for an investigation into the proceedings of' the anti-convent associations would be decidedly more in order. And a parliamentary inquiry into one of them might possilbily lead, to as interesting— though, of course, not as sensational— revelations as did that of 1835.