ROMAN CATHOLICS AND STATE SCHOLARSHIPS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1622, 13 December 1912, Page 6

ROMAN CATHOLICS AND STATE SCHOLARSHIPS.

STATEMENT BY BISHOP GRIMES,

{By TolOEraph.-Press Association.) Christchurch, December 12. The fact that Education Board scholar* ships cannot bo held at Roman Catholio Colleges was referred to by Bishop Grimes in an address at a presentation of prizes this afternoon. His Lordship said that Roman Catholic children were generally loyal to their abna mater, yet though they strove.hard to obtain free places, these could not bo worked out at their own school. He did not think'that it was ever intended that this condition of affairs should exist. At least, two Governors had told him that they considered it a great act of injustice. "I see only one way out of it, his lordship continued, "arid that is for tho Government to say what really should be done. We should not be hound down to go through the undignified proceeding of begging from education boards what wo have a right to have. Otherwise, I suppose, though we are loyal people, we shall have to use tho powerful weapon of agitation in this question in an electoral or other campaign. Wo assist in electing members of education boards, and though we havo kept free from these elections wo have only, to say tho word and wo know what Roman Catholics will do."