ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1518, 14 August 1912, Page 6

ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS.

A NEW CONSTITUTION, CKXTIUL BOAIiD AND COMMITTEES. For .some linio past it Ims been reoogrl ,! IL son,e quarters (lint the Human Catholic education j-yslein, as affecting the primary schools-conducted by the M'arM on, 1 , "' <>llil . 1 K l oii. might 1)0 placed » «ill f™T bas 's. "'"1 for some months cmtiuii pent lemon-members of tins nhT'i °' I 1 1ac,,1 ! )ral,i;ll of lhe Uil)prlan Sn.iety—have lieen putting their lioails together In contrive a sounder basis con,rol - the result of their tlvil ° i' 01 " uew constitution was P opounded, n submitted to tho parish monl" il:, : ""i ,, PI , . r "YPil. Then followed rhl ' l! a j;! shl . o,R ' l,s '» -Newtown, liormlon, and J« Aro, and in encli case "F'Wta was approved. The final meeting was held m St. Patrick's Hall as evo ,,, „ s , «™ liov. Father O'Shen p?i! nvn™i IV Al '° apUI, i nVi 1 Ilpw luu ' important pro?chnils ! e n P 'i ' at W™," that tho parish iormM ,)e , crtl ! ll : ollei1 "ml adminisn n h r'° central board-tile Welling, (on Catholic Ldueaiion Trust—and «ehoo'l b'C[ n? H Cf ( Ul ° ( tlm °, l fmul i ®n i 1110 (ll ° creation of a ti lid to bo called the Wellington Catholic r"" 1 for i tha of ice education, and providing for the maintenance ot the schools. Tho central for H,! 3 1-° C °. ns ' st of tho P™*' l F i(^3 joi tho lime being of the city of Wollnßlon, tlii-eo representatives ot' tho W"l----l' ,ium ,■Australian Benefit HoCouncil, nml two representatives c "'- ' , of , f . h « scliool committees, one nf cnol I u -n' J ' ' , Hl,Jc rnittn section f om , aI >d «ie other bv the hni ■ ,?'M 1 '! S f Ctloll, • Tll ° ,1,,1i0s °* f the boaul will bo to receive and consider all 'ee°t'iml S? il ' ,y Fcl i'? o ' co »"niftees; to mfnil moneys collected by tho committee aro deposited to the board's aci™" j 116I 16 °t Ne,r Zealand, Tc hi-A„ to n>nko nil payments passed b.V the committees and sanctioned bv the board, and to arrange for tho investment' oi all surplus moneys for tho building F a ca , lnt l 1 f l llul ' The odicers of the uoaid are to consist of a chairman, secretary, and treasurer, to be elected annually bv the members of the board, which shall also appoint three trustees and two aututors. Kach parish school comniittee is to consist ot nine monitors, four to be elected by the jocal members of tho Hibernian hociety, and four to be'elected by contributors to the fund, with the parish priest (or his representative) as chairman. The annual meeting of contributors in- eacll parish is to be held on the first Sunday m July, at which meeting tho contributors representatives on tlio committee shall 1m elected for tho ensuing twelve months. The Hibernian Societv's represelitatives shall be elccted at the 'July hnlt-y?.niy meeting of each branch. Each school committee is to control the penny collections at each of the clmrchcs' ill their respective parishes. All accounts in connection with each school shall be considered by the committee of the parish in which tho school is situated, certified by tho chairman, and forwarded to the board for payment. The secretary and treasurer of each school committee is to be elccted at the first meeting in July each year. Should a difference arise between a comniittee and the teaching staff, it shall bo referred to the Jjonrd. \\ ith the adoption of the above constitution, tho new control comes into operation.. The members of the board will bo elected next week,