Gisborne

New Zealand Tablet, 9 August 1917, Page 35

Gisborne

(From our own correspondent.) _, Jul y 31. The treasurer of the local branch of the N.Z. Catholic Federation notified on Sunday that over £l2 had been received as a result of the penny collection for the Catholic field service fund.

The Rev. Father Furlong, of Devonport, who had been spending a brief period here for health purposes, returned to Auckland on Monday, July 16. He has the best wishes of very many friends for a speedy and permanent recovery. m . The fortnightly social evenings arranged by tire Children ol Mary, Hibernian Society, and others, are being continued successfully. Mrs. F. Hale donated two valuable prizes for the euchre tournament, and also received donations towards the socials from Mesdames Doherty and G. O’Neill, Messrs. H. Martin F. Hale T. Donovan, and E. Williams. Mr. J. J. Martin, winner of the euchre prize at the last social, handed it back for the next social, with a promise to donate an additional prize also. St. Mary’s Schoolroom was crowded last Sunday evening, after devotions, when the Catholics of Gisborne met to enter an emphatic protest against the conscription of our priests and Brothers. 1 The Rev. Father Lane presided and spoke strongly on the present position. The following resolution was passed by acclamation “The Catholics of Gisborne emphatically protest against, and will resist by every constitutional means, the conscription of priests and Brothers as being mimical to the interests of religion in this Dominion.” Copies of the resolution have been forwarded to the Piime Minister, Sir J. G. Ward, Sir James Carroll (Member for the district), and Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald (Member for Bay of Plenty). A meeting on the same subject was also held by the parishioners of Ormond at Makauri on Sunday, when a similar resolution was passed and copies forward to the Prime Minister and local Members of Parliament.