SPEAKING TOUR IN NEW ZEALAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19551, 6 August 1925, Page 10

SPEAKING TOUR IN NEW ZEALAND.

INVITATION TO REV. FATHER HAYS. (Feom Ona Own Coebespondent.} LONDON, June 30. The Rev. Father Hays, of Beeston (Notts), has received an invitation from representatives of all the religious denominations in the dominion to make a speaking tom- in New Zealand in October and November next. l ather Hays has twice travelled around the world preaching in every Englishspeaking country; and since the death of Father Bernard Vaughan he is the only Roman Catholic priest in England who enjoys this distinction. His work for the conservation of the home and family life, for child welfare, and for temperance, received the highest commendation of Pope Pius X, who desired him to spread the good work everywhere. A notable feature of his work has 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 and Hugh Price Hughes. He was ordained priest by the late Bishop Bagshawe in St. Barnabas’s Cathedral, Nottingham, in 1894.