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New Zealand Tablet, 25 August 1910, Page 1375

. In connection with the dispensation for the use of meat oh the Saturdays in Quarter Tense and the vigils of certain feasts, we (Melbourne Tribune) may state that the -petition to the Holy See regarded the law of abstinence and not the law of fast. . The Archbishop realised the inconvenience, and often the impossibility, of working people having to abstain from meat two days in succession. When Saturday was a full working day that was most difficult to many people, and now that it is a half-holiday the inconvenience is not removed. The terms of the dispensation are that on these days meat can be taken without limit by those who are not bound to fast—that is, all who are .under twentyone years of age, over sixty, suffering from illness, or engaged in hard work. For those who are bound to fast the m. privilege would mean freedom to take meat at the principal C meal. --- - • 1