CATHOLIC SCHOLARSHIP GRIEVANCES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1039, 14 December 1912, Page 3

CATHOLIC SCHOLARSHIP GRIEVANCES.

Christchurch, Thursday

The fact that Education Board scholarships cannot be held at Catholic colleges was referred to by Bishop Grimes in an address at the presentation of prizes this afternoon.

His Lordship said that Catholic children were generally loyal to their Alma Mater, yet, though they strove hard to obtain free places these could not be worked out at their own schools. 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, ‘‘and that is for the Government to say what really should be done. “We should not be bound down to go through the undignified proceeding of begging from the Education Boards what we have a right to have. “Otherwise! suppose, though we are loyal people, w f e shall have to use the powerful weapon ol agitation in this question in an electoral or other campaign. We assist in electing members of the Education Boards, and though we have kept free from the elections we have only to say the word and w r e know w 7 hat Catholics will do.”