P.P. ASSOCIATION.

Timaru Herald, Issue 170296, 14 August 1920, Page 7

P.P. ASSOCIATION.

CONFERENCE IN TIMARU. (Contributed'). A- conference under the auspices of the i\ I'. A. was held in \Yesiuy Hall, on 'liiu rsday, delegates being prosem .from ali parts 'or ooutli Canterbury, sume travelling over 51) miles to attend.

JLiio conference endorsed the action ol the Council of Churches, Ciiristcliurch, drawing the attention of the j'riine Minister to th« "olicy of the "-New Zealand Tablet'' in persistently undermining the loyalty of Kcman Catholics to the Empire and - Britain. The importance of looking after Protestant interests on public bodies was lieoJy discussed and endorsed, as well as the necessity of the Civil Service in all its branches being staffed by servants of undoubted loyalty. A remit dealing with the desirability of every immigrant landing in . Ne\'v Zealand taking an oath of loyalty was approved. The conference affirmed the principle that all property should he ' ciually rated irrespective of denomination. Archbishop O',Shea's denial of the teaching of his Church concerning the validity of mixed or Catholic marriages not contracted before a. priest was discussed, and quotations were given from the Roman Catholic Pink Catechism (questions and answers, numbers 312 and 313, page .57), stating that persons married under, such conditions even if before the civil registrar, '-are not married at all." Other matters of a, domestic nature were dealt with. It was resolved that the next South Canterbury conference he held in Waimate.