BIGOTRY BEATEN: COURT OF APPEAL VICTORY FOR LONDON PRIEST.

New Zealand Tablet, 21 April 1921, Page 13

BIGOTRY BEATEN: COURT OF APPEAL VICTORY FOR LONDON PRIEST.

Some 12 months ago Father Douch, the Parish Priest of the Church of the Most Precious Blood, the Borough (London), was nominated by the Borough Council as one of the three trustees of the Borough Market Trust, an old foundation in the parish, which has to do with the administration of charities, and c is intimately connected with St. Saviour's Protestant Cathedral in The Borough. The nomination, for the first,time, of a priest of the Catholic Church to such a position occasioned a flutter jin the non-Catholic dovecotes. An action at law was instituted to have the nomination set aside, the point being raised that St. Saviour's had the right of confirming all such appointments. The Court upheld the nomination of the Borough Council, who appeared as defendants in the case, but the Protestant interest, not yet satisfied, took tho case to the Court of Appeal. •.. ~ Beaten a Second Time. '■[ :>W V ; "*%" ! ' As a result of the hearing there Father XDouch, P.P., received the following letter recently from the Borough Council: —"In connection with your appointment as Trustee of the Borough Market, I beg to inform you/that the Court of Appeal has this day (January 21) upheld the appointment." Father Douch therefore takes his place on»'-:j;he Board of Trustees, the first. Catholic ever to sit on it. ;-■'.-: a*lbv"^ ••.-. There are eight Catholics on the Board of Guardians, four of whom Father Douch was directly instrumental in getting elected. *<#!