The Newman Society, Auckland

New Zealand Tablet, 28 July 1910, Page 1185

The Newman Society, Auckland

In the Auckland letter in our last issue it was stated that tlie local branch of the Hibernian Society intended to form a library of standard works, etc. This was a mistake; it is the Auckland branch of the Newman Society that should be credited with the proposal. We printed the information as it was telegraphed to us. The following is the paragraph as it appeared in the Students’ Magazine : Hie Newman Society intends forming a library of standard works, chiefly of an historical and literary nature, which will give authoritative information on such subjects as are more generally misunderstood and misrepresented at the expense of the Church. A sub-committee of the society, consisting of the Rev. Father Edge, Misses Bnylan and M. Maguire, the president and the secretary, has been appointed to look after this most important branch of the society’s work. In addition to this reference library, which it is intended to present to the University Council for inclusion in the University library for the information of the students generally, the library committee has in hand a scheme for the formation of reading circles among members, and also the establishment of a circulating magazine association, so that all members may have the benefit of reading the leading Catholic magazines and periodicals to their own individual improvement and information generally. The society will be pleased to acknowledge through these columns any contributions of books of the nature indicated, or of Catholic magazines, any of which will be welcomed and gratefully received by the society.