A REPLY TO GINX’S BABY.

Evening Star, Issue 2917, 25 June 1872, Page 2

A REPLY TO GINX’S BABY.

To the Editor. g XRj _I am glad you have brought the case of the child Holt before the public. You have omitted to state that this child is registered, in the books of the Industrial School, as a Roman Catholic : that the Colonial law orders each child in the school to be registered under some religious denomination ; evidently implying that the child is to be reared in that denomination : that the Superintendent gave orders that as far as possible, no Catholic child should be licensed out to a Protestant, and without the approbation of the Roman Catholic clergy: that this child was sent from the industrial School after the clergyman had protested against sending the child to Mr M‘Moran at Clyde. You also omitted stating that this child’s brother is only sixteen years of a.e, and not a Roman Catholic; and that the child was licensed out, not to his brother, but to Mr M'Moran, a Presbyterian; and consequently that M'Moran has the control of the child. That his Honor the Superintendent promised me if he found that M ‘Moran is a Protestant, he would order the return of the child ; that he finds M'Moran is a Protestant, and yet he has not kept the promise ; that the Superintendent’s orders have been violated in sending this Roman Catholic child to a Protestant, notwithstanding the protest of the Woman Catholic clergy man ; and yet he supports the authorities of the Industrial School in acting contrary to his Honor’s orders. I leave it to the public to decide, :f I were justified in placing the case before the Superintendent ; and when justice was not done, in complaining of the course adopted, in violation of promises made to me, and in charging those concerned with proselytism. Let me add that I think you would he

acting impartially by letting the public have all the facts as in the correspondence, —lam, &c., Wm. Coleman, E.C. Clergyman. Dunedin, June 25.