LAND OF PRODIGIES
AUSTRALIA’S VITALITY ARCH BISHOP’S REMARKS LONDON, Feb. 24. Twenty thousand people welcomed Archbishop Downey at Liverpool. The celebrations included an afternoon reception to 3000 children at St. George’s Hall, where thousands were unable to obtain admission. In the evening, Archbishop Downey told his audience that Australia was a land of prodigies, where men. women, and children, the flora and fauna, and everything else were extraordinarily active. Vitality was the keynote and nothing moved at a normal pace. The greatest prodigy was man’s stupendous progress in civilising the vast continent in a single century, with which Catholics and the Roman Catholic Church had kept pace. Roman Catholic schools, despite the absence of State aid, were among the most efficient.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 46, 26 February 1935, Page 5
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