Napier

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 20, 16 May 1907, Page 13

Napier

(From our own correspondent.) May 10. The Yen. Archdeacon Devoy is on a visit to Napier. The memibers of the Catholic Young Ladies' Association held a very successful meeting on Tuesday evening last. The members of the Association have issued invitations to a social to foe given by them on next Tuesday evening. The Catholic Men's Club held a debate last night, when Messrs. Linden, R. Willis, and Cunningiham made a vigorous attack on the Napier Harbor Board Loan Empowering Bill. Thi*ir arguments were ably replied to by Messrs. A. Mahony, Heron, and Gleeson. The chairman (Rev. Father Goggan) announced the result as a tie. He added that his own private opinion was that the ratepayers ought to sanction a loan to have the breakwater finished, but, at the same time, the suggestion of Mr. Heron that the day may yet come when the people of Hastings would join with the people of HaveLoefc and Waimaraon/a and erect a wharf of their own at a more convenient spot did not come as a surprise to him. The executive of the club have decided to 1 set aside one night a week for recitations. Every memiber will be expected to recite "somet-hingi. Special nipjhts 1 will also be given to Irish readings. It is on the tapis that the debating club will issue challenges to other defeating clubs in Napier. We have eivery confidence' that we can hold our own.