ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Tablet, 17 June 1920, Page 39

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

S.M3.A. The Irish for “sister” is deirbhiiur—pronounced dar-av-vrau-her. F.L. —Lady Butler was a Miss Thompson. • Her sis- ~ ter married Wilfrid Meynell, and is a distinguished, poet and essayist. J.G.S.Thanks for clipping. It is very interesting, but we would be slow to believe that a man of the standing of Keynes should be so rash in his assertions as M. Montoux implies. N.H. (Havelock).We already acknowledged receipt, but as there are three places called Havelock, and as you did not specify which, it is presumable that our communication never reached you. P.K.We regret that it is unusual to publish in our -columns a correspondence originally intended for other papers. A. —No letters published over nn/ns dc plume in this paper, except when the’ topic is absolutely non-controversial. Besides yours is at least ten times too verbose. B. —Thanks for calling our attention to the omniscient Stout’s latest guess. Have you read Windle on the Church and Science ? We had the book but we have it no longer, nor have we any recollection of where to seek it. Justice.— ln three places in New Zealand Catholic . teachers put themselves to great inconvenience to go out to teach instead of bringing children to the centre in which the convents are situated. Thus while free passes are granted over a few miles to three or four teachers, free passes for scores of children are saved to the Railway authorities. This is what the P.P.Ass. makes such a row about. The concession, recommended by common sense, was granted by a Minister of Education who was not afraid to have common sense, and at a time when Cabinet Ministers were presumed to have common sense. We have heard that Greymonth children who won scholarships have not been permitted this year to take them out in the convent High School. As the High School is far and away the best school on the Coast, it is quite likely that the report is true. The same game was tried in Dunedin last year. The Adm. took up the cudgels and exposed the trickery of the Minister and his satellites, and made them look very ridiculous.