Catholic Schools

New Zealand Tablet, 25 October 1906, Page 22

Catholic Schools

According to the'"current ' issue of the « New Zealand Official Year-Book ' (p. 135) the Catholic primary schools in the ColohyChave risen from' llHn 1^95 to 149' in" 1904. Out of a: total of 1&,^8 wlite pupils " in attendance at-*ll the private schools in New Ze^ land ln 19°4 ' U'373U ' 373 received *heir educat4:in Cat^ lie Prim *ry schools. It thus happens that about seve^ per cent, of the people of New Zealand Lrn£h RqS percent. (,r practically 70 per -^Sfo^Sf^ attending private primary schools, or' nearly ten' tSs more than their proportion to total population- The' figures quoted above also give an impassive' idea of the relatively vast extent to which Catholics monopo lise religious education in New Zealand Our Tparal ed brethren seem content, as a rule with^a mXnolv of talk about religious education ThTiSS \ m6ves heart and hand is of a vastly hirW'rmw than that which has only jlst SXnt^W , to wag the tongue. . norse-power