SCHOLARSHIPS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1667, 6 February 1913, Page 7

SCHOLARSHIPS.

■. ——♦ ——-•, AND DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS. BISHOP.CLEARY AND AUCKLAND , BOARD. ■ (By Telegraph.-Prees AeEo'alation.) , Auckland, February 0. Tho Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland (Dr. Weary) again approachcd tlio Auckland Education Board lo urge that -. tho scholarships. offered by! tho , board '. should bo .tenable at the Sacred Heart College as well as tho Grammar Schdol or lung's College. Tho Bishop's letter to tho ■ board is as lollows:— "I hereby once more request your board to Ixs good enough to accept the Sacred Heart College, Ponsonby, as nn 'cquivalent' secondary school for the. tenure, of scholarships ill accordance with tho- provisions of the amended Education Act, 1910. • Your committee has in its possession a very favourable report of the Edu. cation Department's inspectors, and tho . extension of accommodation required by them in the science room has been completed and is now open any time for inv*- . spection by the board. 1 take the opportunity of placing before the board the • ■. following further The . payment of scholarship allowance is mado, not to tho school, but to the parents of tho holder of the scholarship. _ (2) _ Tho payment is not made for denominaldonak ' or religious education, but for secular instruction only under the control and inspection of. the State. (3) Public money has been given by way of scholarships to two denominational '-.schools .(Wanganui Collegiato School, and Christ's Collcfe, ' , ; ' Christchurch) for more than thirty, years,' (4) Public money has l>oon paid for sev- ; eral years past to a number of denominational schools in the Dominion for schol- . arships to Maori childrcu. (5) Publio money is paid by way of scholarships and ; bursaries to denominational schools iii. '/ New South Wales, Queensland, and Vic- ; torn. (G1 The following Education Boards have granted tenure of .scholarships to . denominational schools in the Dominion Grey, North Canterbury, Wanganut. Tarnnaki, the last-named allowed an'lnglewood l>oy to transfer his scholarship to St. Patrick's College, Wellington: (7) Tho Minister for Education repeatedly stated • that denominational'schools have only to prove efficiency to hove tho. privilege of having scholavshin-holders as pupils. In the case of the Sacred- Heart College its efficiency- is sufficiently evidenced by tho inspector's report already mentioned, and by tho fact that: one of its pupils was .first in Class' Bin this year's Education I Board scholarships,-and'another sevfenth. I apply for the tenure of both scholarshins in the Sacred Heart College.".,-' ' . The board' received the Bishop's letter 'and declined- .the application." -