CATHOLIC FEDERATION OF NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand Tablet, 6 March 1913, Page 27

CATHOLIC FEDERATION OF NEW ZEALAND

(From our Wellington correspondent.) v /" The Provisional Dominion Executive met last Wednesday evening under the presidency of Mr. A. H. Casey. Excellent reports were received from Auckland, Onenunga, ; Raetihi, Upper Hutt, Lower Hutt, Petone; Te Aro, Newtown, Tiiorndon, Hokitika, Christchurch, and Dunedin, which showed that the federation is making rapid progress. Correspondence was also received from Mr. T. J. O'Brien, general secretary of the Victorian Federation, congratulating/New Zealand on the excellent progress made, and forwarding copies of the monthly bulletin issued by Victoria. The Victorian executive has set for itself the task of bringing the membership up to 100,000 this year. The Provisional Dominion Executive is not yet complete, owing to the three representatives from the three other dioceses not being appointed. The secretary was instructed to write to the dioceses concerned,'requesting the appointment of representatives to bring the executive up to the full strength. Although the present executive will be in existence for a few months only it was thought, that even for that brief period, it was only right that the other dioceses should .be represented. Under the constitution, as soon as the diocesan councils are formed, these bodies will each elect three representatives to form the Dominion Executive. . DUNEDIN. A meeting for the purpose of inaugurating a branch of the Catholic Federation will be held in South Dunedin on Sunday afternoon. At all the Masses and Vespers at St. Joseph's Cathedral on Sunday members of the Catholic Federation were enrolled and certificates issued. Members were also enrolled at the Sacred Heart Church, North-East Valley. " ' On Sunday a sub-committee of the Catholic Federation was formed in the Kaikorai Valley. Rev. Father Coffey presided, and there was a good attendance. The following were appointed members of the sub-commit-Messrs. G. Winders, D. Creed, G. Purton, and L. McConnell, Mesdames Cornish, Gebbie, and T. Hill, and Miss Creed. Intending members will be enrolled on next and following Sundays.