AUCKLAND EDUCATION BOARD SCHOLARSHIPS

New Zealand Tablet, 13 February 1913, Page 19

AUCKLAND EDUCATION BOARD SCHOLARSHIPS

REQUEST BY BISHOP CLEARY REFUSED His Lordship Bishop Cleary approached the Auckland Education Board to urge that scholarships offered by the Board should also be tenable at the Sacred Heart College as well as at the Grammar School or King's College. His Lordship's letter to the Board was as follows: ' I hereby once more request your Board to be good enough to accept the Sacred Heart College, Ponsonby, as "equivalent" to a secondary school for the tenure of scholarships in accordance with the provisions of the amended Education Act, 1910. Your committee has in its possession a very favorable report of the Education Department's inspectors to extend the accommodation required by them in the science room, which has been completed and is now open at any time for inspection by the Board. I take this opportunity of placing before the Board the following further considerations:—(l) The payment of the scholarship allowance is made not to the school but to the parents of the holder of a scholarship. (2) Payment is not made for denominational or religious education, but for secular instruction only under the control and inspection of the State. (3) Public money has been given by way of scholarships to two denominational schools Wanganui Collegiate School and Christ's College, Christchurch—for more than 30 years. (4) Public money has been paid for several years past to a number of denominational schools in the Dominion for scholarships to Maori children. (5) Public money is paid by way of scholarships and bursaries to denominational schools in New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria. (6) The following Education Boards have granted tenure scholarships to denominational schools in the Dominion: Grey, North Canterbury, Waneanui, ana laiftuttAi. xjuc last-nameo. allowed an Inglewood boy to transfer his scholarship to St. Patrick's College, Wellington. (7) The Minister of Education has repeatedly stated that denominational schools have only to prove efficiency to have the privilege of having

scholarship holders as pupils. In the case of the Sacred Heart College, its efficiency is sufficiently evidenced by the inspector's report already mentioned, and by the fact that one of its pupils was first in Class B in this year's Education Board scholarships, and another seventh. I apply for the tenure of both scholarships in the Sacred Heart College.' • The Board received the Bishop's letter and declined the application. & -' . mnagy BWW—| —w m .kin