SCHOLARSHIPS AT DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1913, Page 11

SCHOLARSHIPS AT DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS

BISHOP CLEARY ANp THE AUCKLAND BOARD. (BY TELEGRAPH — KRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, sth February, The Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland (Dr. Cleary) again approached tho Auckland Education Board to urge that the scholarships offered by the boari should be tenable at the Sacred Heart College as well as the Grammar School lor King's College. The Bishop's letter to, the board is as follows : — "I hereby once more request your ■board to be good enough to accept the Sacred Heart College, Ponsonby, as an ' equivalent ' secondary school for tho tenure of scholarships in accordance with the provisions of the amended Education Act, 1910. Your committed has in its possession a very favourable report of the Education Department's inspectors, and the extension of accommodation required by them in the science room has been completed and is now open any time for inspection by j the 'board.' J l take the bpporttlnity of placing before , the t b6ard the following further' considerations:— (1) The payment of scholarship allowance is made not to the school, but to the parents of the holder of , the scholarship. (2) The payment is >not made "for denomi 1 national or religious education, but fot secular instruction only under the control and inspection of tho State. (3) Public money has been given by Way of scholarships to two denominational schools (Wanganui Collegiate School, and Christ's College, Christchurch) foU more than thirty years. (4) Ptiblio money has been paid for several years past to > a number of denominational schools ul the Dominion for scholar ships to Maori children. (5) Public money is paid by way_ of scholarships , and borsattps to denominational schools in^New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria. . (6) The following Education Boards have granted tenure of scholarships to denominational schools in 'th« Dominion:— Grey, North Canterbury, Wanganui,.' and Taranaki; the lastnamed- allowed an Inglewood hoy "to transfer his 'scholarship to St. Patrick's College, ' Wellington. (7) The Minister for Education repeatedly stated that denominational schools have only to 'bfove "efficiency to havo the privilege of .having ; scholarship-holders, as pupils. In the case of the Sacred H^art .College, its 'efficiency is sufficiently evidenced by the inspector's report already mentioned, and by the fact .that "<Jne Tof its pupils was first in Class B in this year's Education Board scholarships, and another seventh. I apply for tne A f tdnurs of both scholarships in the Sacred Heart College." The board received the Bishop's letter and declined the application.