FATHER HAYS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18456, 10 August 1925, Page 11

FATHER HAYS.

TOUR IN NEW ZEALAND. (nioir oue ow* correspondent.) ri LONDON. June 30. Tiie Rev, Father Hays, of Beeston (Notts.), has received an invitation from representatives of all the religious denominations in the Dominion to make a speaking torn- in New Zealand in October and November next. Father Hays has twice travelled round the world preaching in every JMighsh-spcaJdnrr country; and since trie deatn of Father Bernard Vaughan •tV 3 le ollly oman Catholic priest hi England who enjoys this distinction. His work for the conservation of the homo and family life, for child welfare, and for temperance, recoivcd the highest comemndatioii of Popo Pius X., who desired him to spread the. good work everywhere. A notable feature of his work lias been that he has taken part in many movements for social welfare with leaders in the Church of England like Archbishop Temple and the Bishops of London, Manchester, Liverpool, Southwell, and Lincoln, and in the Nonconformist bodies with men like Dr. Clifford arid Hugh Price Hughes, He was ordained priest by the late Bishop Bagshawo in St. Barnabas's Cathedral, Nottingham, in 1894.