EDUCATION BOARD SCHOLARSHIPS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3704, 13 December 1912, Page 5

EDUCATION BOARD SCHOLARSHIPS

HOW CATHOLICS STAND. [PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM] CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 12. The fact that Education Board scholarships cannot be held at Catholic college's was referred to by Bishop Grimes in an address at a presentation of prizes this afternoon. His Lordship said that Catholic children were generally loyal to their alma mater, yet he thought they strove hard to obtain free places. These could not be worked out at their own school. Ho 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 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 Education Boards what wo have a right to have otherwise. 1 suppose that, though we are a loyal people, wo shall have to use the powerful weapon of agitation in this question in an electoral or 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 the Catholics will do.