EPSOM GRAMMAR GIRL

Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1924, Page 4

EPSOM GRAMMAR GIRL

STATEMENT KY MOTHER'S .SOLICITOR.

AFCKI.AND. Sep. 2U. ■Mr 11. P. Iticli iikjikl , solicitor for Mrs .Marlin, writes In tin- " Herald " tliai (lm po-ilion was not quite * orler Ily slated oil Salni'dav 111 I'elnreilce to the eoinlil ions nil which Mi-.s Marlin was advised In re turn home. Mr lliehnmml says that Mrs Martin was quite willing to allow her daughter complete freedom of religious thought, including even atlemlam e it 1 the l!<>mmi Catholic Church if she no desired. Only two conditions were insisted on: First, that her daughter should for twelve months completely •ever her.-.. -It from a personal iiilluenoe and attachment which laid arisen in eouneelioii w ith her si liool life. This inlluciwe, Mrs Martin had grave reasons to believe, was a powerful one. and she considered I hat her dauhgler could not pns.Ghlv return lo a normal slate of mind while il persisted. The

second condition was that her daughter should uit seek the inslruelinii necessary hclore entering the Homan Catholic Church until she had been at least a month with her mother. These conditions were recommended to the daughter as proper, b.v Bishop Cleary, lint the daughter could not then see her way to accept any conditions restricting her intimate friendship with the lady to whose influence her mother objected. 11 is client’s cause of complaint was not against a change of faith, if that had conic to her daughter at the proper time and on clear and reasoned judgment. Her complaint was against what she believed lo have been the inllimnoing of a sehoolgril’s mind, at first without her mother’s knowledge, and' later in direct opposition to her mother’s expressed wishes. Further cause of complaint was against those who kept secret from the mother her daughter’s whereabouts causing her most intense and wearing anxiety. Mr Richmond savs his client wishes to remove any impression that Bishop ( leary and hi? counsel did not at the conference recommend Mrs Martin’s conditions ns entirely fair and proper. Miss Martin returned to her mother early this al’U-nnooii. None of the principals in the case desired to malce anv statement.