Riverton

New Zealand Tablet, 6 November 1913, Page 36

Riverton

(From an occasional correspondent.) After Benediction on Sunday evening at St. Columba's Church, Riverton, a meeting of members of the congregation was held, when the Rev. Father Murphy delivered a short address on the aims and objects of the New Zealand Catholic Federation. He said the chief aim was the promotion and improvement of Catholic matters in the parish, to augment the forces of the Church, and to bring back the old traditions of the Church; also to have circulated in the parish good sound healthy Catholic literature. Under no account would the Federation be a political one, and would only deal with politics where they were detrimental to the Catholic religion. He hoped members would do all in their power to spread the usefulness of the Federation throughout the parish. The following were elected a committee:Messrs. Jas. O'Brien, F. Dwyer, J. McNickel, and Jno. Geary, Misses M. Woolf and M. Hayes. Mr. O'Brien was appointed chairman, and Mr. Geary secretary.