ST. MARY'S COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL,

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 52, 30 December 1909, Page 2064

ST. MARY'S COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL,

His Lordship Bisliop Grimes presided at the anjnup Gntertißftjiga? a^Medi^ib^i^pSpirli^iffi St. Mary's High School, conducted by the Sisters of Mercy?-* Colombo streejL^ tho^eyiixesejiti were the Very Rev. Dean Ginaty, thejgajhldrjil and resident clergy, and visiting pf lesfe. At the "conclusion of an enjoyable and varied programme, his Lordship the Bishop spoke at length lwsrt^ftJiiej i a3iU,e^tion of education, and the suGcess£ul OT ef£ortfiu.of. Catholics to maintain a standard of efficiency equal to" State requirements, and in many respects' far in advance of the public school systeMf4\fflte«|efflfed§rffi iltnforPE&^ri^QEm&Ho the disabiliies unaer^wliMhl bWWols laWfaTr wlfi'ePtfie disposal of National Scholarships being one of the most glaring. As showing to what lenjaaisHtl^&r/tfiiusJbicer^wasJv «»«feei«@ ! *«w>™ed, he instanced the f aoTUaF m i a distrM <fflc Canterbury where -tlie Sisters of Mercy had established a high school which Was fffi*d*lS sna'j&e j>9p^i- t ~\ lation the State followed by opening a district high school. Catholics are debarred from enterinjufch^ _gtate institutions and when they open their own aresubjected to opposition.

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