ROMAN CATHOLICS AND EDUCATION.
sermon by archbishop-redwood:; ■.-,(Bt TI3LEGBAFH—I'IIESS.j-ASsbciATtOS:) , ':■:■ ' ~' : ' '■,'-■ Bienhelm, January. 31v ' -.; The school erected; in memory of, tho/.late . Father Lewis was opened /this afternoon by Archbishop Redwood, ,the : : Mayor ..and:. : the' chairman of the: Education /Board also .at-; tondingihp ceremony offlcially: : .ThereiWasia large public .attendance; and about. £60 was' collected, priabling Father Hojloy: to:announce: that the school,, which cost.about:£Boo, was being: opened freeof: debt.:- At a. service in ■ the.churchthe.Archbishop preached a power-" fill-;sermon'- o'ii' the-Roman Catholic education system. Hβ claimed that the system was'the only perfect one in;, the, Dominion, in that' it provided for religious' training as.'.well.as the .equipment 'of bpys; girls; to/be effec- : ' tiye members of civil.society based' bri Christian; principles. \ Speaking'of "the; sabHfices 1 niade by Roman'! Catholics ofl';behalf of iheir idea of - education, he said>that > although only one-seventh •of the population, ~ they rspent every' year: about £40,000,7a'iidv!in ■ twenty-; five years they.'had saved the .taxpayers' of New Zealand.one-million pounds. : : ';,;.' -.■.'.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 420, 1 February 1909, Page 7
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153ROMAN CATHOLICS AND EDUCATION. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 420, 1 February 1909, Page 7
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