IRISH REPUBLICANS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18310, 18 February 1925, Page 9

IRISH REPUBLICANS.

ARRIVAL OF RELIEF MISSION.

fet CABLE—PJUSSS ASSOCIATION— COPXBIOHT.) XAtJBTaAUAH AND IT.Z, CABLB ASSOCJATIOH.) (Received February 17th; 7.45 p y m.) • SYDNEY, February 17.

The I*>rd Mayor accorded a civic welcome to Misses Barry and Kearns, delegates of .the Irish Relief Mission, who have arrived from Ireland to collect funds for the Irish Republicans lately released from prison by the Irish Free State Government.

The delegates aim at collecting a hundred thousand sterling in Australia. The Lord Mayor, replying to the toast of bis health, declared that, fhe appeal was one that every lover of Ireland and free nationhood should cordially support. The loyal toast was omitted from the ceremony.

In conversation with a reporter yesterday Mr E. 0. Sutcliffe, secretary of the Christchurch Branch of th© Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, mentioned the interesting fact that in April the jubilee of the establishment of the Society in the Dominion would be celebrated in Christchurcfi, ■where the first branch of the Society was formed in the Dominion. Mr Sutcliffe also mentioned that the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners is the oldest union of carpenters and joiners registered nndcr the Industriai Conciliation and Arbitration Act in the Dominion. The actual date of the jubilee celebration has not yet been definitely fixed. *