CATHOLIC EDUCATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 177, 13 December 1912, Page 5

CATHOLIC EDUCATION.

A SIGNIFICANT STATEMENT.

By Telegraph—Press Association.

Christchurch, Last Night. 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 o'btain free places these could not be worked out at their own school. 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 this," His Lorship 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 education boards what we have a right to have. Otherwise, I suppose, though we are loyal people, we shall have to use the powerful weapon of agitation in this question in an electoral o'- other campaign. We assist in electing members of education boards, and though we have kept free from these elections we have only to say the word, and we know what Catholics will do."