DIOCESAN LADIES OF CHARITY

New Zealand Tablet, 10 September 1914, Page 47

DIOCESAN LADIES OF CHARITY

CATHEDRAL CONFRATERNITY; CHRIST- ■’ CHURCH. (From our own correspondent.) . ' Although the year’s activity closed on July 31 to enable the annual report and balance sheet to be completed, the fact of the delay to this comparatively late stage is explained as being owing to most of the prominent members being engaged in connection with the bazaar in aid of the schools’ fund and other important parochial works claiming a large share of their attention. During" the year .37 meetings were held and the following duties recorded;-— 25 visits to families in their own homes, 58 visits to general Hospital, 13 visits to Female Refuge, 5 . visits to Jubilee Memorial Home, 3 visits to Lewisham Hospital, 8 visits to Consumptive Sanitorium, 99 visits to sick persons, and I visit to the new. King George Coronation Hospital. 68 second-hand garments were ; distributed, also 69 new garments, 9 pairs of new boots, 16 parcels of groceries, and 25 yards of new material. Five infants were taken for baptism, and with the help of the Brothers of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, who paid the registry office fee, a situation was obtained for a discharged inmate of the Addington Women’s Prison. Mrs. F. Green, the representative of the Ladies of Charity on the Mayoral Coal and Blanket Committee of the Christchurch Benevolent Association, attended twelve meetings of that body during the winter months, thus securing for 39 aged people - 10 grants of blankets, coal, and kindred comforts. Ten members have on ten Sundays attended the Women’s Prison at Addington and recited the Holy Rosary with the inmates. The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows;—President, Mrs. F. Green ; vice-president, Mrs. J. O’Brien ; treasurer, Miss M. Nelson secretary, Miss R. Rodgers: ward-robe-keeper, Mrs. Neilson : librarian. Miss Hannan. The following is the balance sheet:—-

V. Receipts. ' ' H - : • V.’.' - ; v To Balance forward ... ... ... £g 3 2 ~ Collections at weekly’meetings - ~. . 2 4 3C, ,y . Hon. members’ subscriptions- ... 2 7 G > ~ Priyate donations vi; ... ... ... 5 15 0?' ~ Discount and interest ..." ... , 1 10 4?. .. ~ .-l - -,r:.v . .£2o' o 3 p ■--'■y ’ Expenditure. XBy Groceries ... ... ... ... £2 11 0 £ „ Drapery ... " ... H.: v V : ’ 12' 2 6 S'. „ Boots ... ... ... ... 3xi g ' ~ Cab hire ... . ... '... ' ... 012 G I'' ~ Rosaries and .hymn books for women's ■ • "-y prison .... .... ... -... :0, ; 5 0 £ ~ Sundries ... ... ... ... 0 .-9 OC’ Balance, in hand ... ... ... ,0. 8 9 X. * v ‘* ; ’ . ' * V ' : £2O - 0.--3- i. The Ladies of Charily desire to gratefully ack- L nowledge the sympathetic interest and kindly assistance extended towards them by his Lordship the Bishop and v! the Cathedral clergy, and also-the' support accorded p them by honorary members and friends. The report records deep appreciation of the help and encourage-'' * ment in their work given by the spiritual director, the Rev. Father Murphy, B.A. . , Cordial recognition on her retirement is recorded towards Miss Wally, who for many" years filled 'the' position of president, devoting much time and energy to the well-being of the confraternity and to works .-of.;, charity in general. . *