DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 39, 21 January 1916, Page 2

DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS

AN[) NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS. Some important points of policy were mentioned by the Minister lor Education (.Hon. J. A, Hanan) at Wellington on Wednesday in replying to a deputation representing the Catholic Federation to the rights of denomination! schools. Ihe deputation included Archbishop O’Shea and the bishops of Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin. The speakers reminded the Minister that they had not yet received replies to all the points raised on a previous occasion and they mentioned some of the of the Council of Education regarding scholarships and leaving certificates, under section 103 of the Education Act, 1914. Tlie Minister, in the course of his reply said: “It is provided that the holder of any junior or senior scholarship shall be required to pursue his studies diligently to the satisfaction of the director at a secondary school, or its equivalent, approved by the Minister. Acting on this section, the Minister for Education in the past, in exceptional cases, has approved of a school of secondary education not coming within the description of a secondary and endowed school, as defined by the Act, district high school or technical high school, on the ground that the educational standing of the institution was undoubtedly good and its staff and equipment and curriculum conformed to all reasonable secondary school requirements. In view of the fact that privileges to private schools in the way of national scholarships have thus been granted, under the said section 103. I am not disposed to recommend the National Government to amend the Act in such a way as to concede all such Concessions that might be given thereunder.”