FATHER HAYS.
PRESS ASSOCIATION’. INVERCARGILL, April 13. A mooting addressed by Father Hays afc Win ton to-night was a very largo one. Father Hays made a statement to the effect that lie was glad to meet at Invercargill and Winton so many of his co-religionists, and lo know that they had taken no notice of the vile attempts of people interested in tho liquor traffic to drag the Church and its Bishops into the mud, and cause religious strife. He had personally th© greatest respect for the Bishops and priests. They were not opposed to his work. Ho could not expect the Bishops to officially us© their position to countenance as a Catholic movement that which was quite unsectarian. He had come to New Zealand quite independent of any churcn, and -was not the paid agent of any society. Having succeeded Cardinal Manning as vicepresident of tho Alliance in England, the sister Alliance in New Zealand, a.s representing all temperance societies in tho colony, had undertaken to organise meetings for him, and make business arrangements. It was no part of his work to dictate to tho people as to which way they must vote. He had a civil right as a British subject to visit New' Zealand and study the temperance question, and form his own opinions.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5563, 14 April 1905, Page 6
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