SCHOLARSHIPS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8347, 6 February 1913, Page 7

SCHOLARSHIPS

LETTER FROM DR CLEARY TO AUCKLAND BOARD. Press Association. AUCKLAND, February 5.' Tho Catholic Bishop of Auckland, Dr Cleary, again approached the Auckland Education Board to urge that the soholarships offered by the hoard should be tenable at the Sacred Heart College as well as the Grammar School or King’s College. The bishop’s letter to tho board is as follows: “Hereby once more I request yonr board to bo good enough to accept the Sacred Heart College, Ponsonby, as ‘equivalent’ to a secondary school for the tenure of scholarships in accordance with the provisions of the amended Education Act, 1910. Your committee has in its possession a very favourable report of the Education Department’s inspectors, and the extended accommodation required by them in the science room has been completed and is now open any time for inspection by tho board. I take this opportunity of placing before tho board the following further considerations: (1) Payment of scholarship allowance is made not to a school but to tho parents of the holder of a scholarship; (2 payment is not made for denominational or religious education but for secular instruction only, under control and inspection of the State; (3) public money has been given by way of scholarships to two denominational schools —Wanganui Collegiate School and Christ’s College, Christchurch—for more than thirty years; (4) public money has been paid for several years past to a number of denominational schools in the Dominion for scholarships to Maori children; (5) public money is paid by way of scholarships and bursaries to demoninational schools in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria; (6) the following education boards have granted tenure scholarships to denominational schools in tha Dominion: Grey, North Cauterbuary, ‘Wanganui, and Taranaki, tho last-named allowing an Inglewood boy to transfer his scholarship to St. Patrick’s College, Wellington; (7) the Minister of Education repeatedly stated that denominational schools have only to prove efficiency to have tho privilege of having scholarship holders as pupils. In the case of tho Sacred Heart College its efficiency is sufficiently evidenced by the inspectors’ report already mentioned, and by the fact that one of its pupils was first in Class B in this year’s Education Board scholarships and another seventh. I apply for tho tenure of both scholarships in the Sacred Heart College.” The board received the bishop’s letter and declined the application.