EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS
PROVIDING FOR 20,000 VISITORS United Press Assn —By Electric Telegraph—Copyrisrh t. SYDNEY, This Day. The frequent arrival of Roman Catholic dignitaries is focussing attention on the Eucharistic Congress to be held in Sydney a fortnight hence. Larre crowds welcomed the congress president. Bishop Heylan, and Bishop Deschamps yesterday. Father Meanv, of Sydney, the congress organiser, has a herculean task in finding accommodation for twenty thousand congress visitors, hut it is well in hand. One of the impressionist spectacles will be on the harbour, when a gold and white barge, resplendent with religious symbolism, will carry the host from Manly to the city through a great laneway of ships. The barge will be a Manly ferry steamer, painted white with a brown and gold band.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10919, 21 August 1928, Page 7
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