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New Zealand Tablet, 24 February 1921, Page 15

■' i-; ; * . ' ■ -IM.iO V . mol KING ALFONSO AND THE , CALIFORNIA MISSIONS. . A message? from San-Francisco, under date December 27, states: —That King Alfonso of Spain had agreed with the Rev. .Raymond’ Mestres, of Monterey, to restore" the old Spanish missions of California at ; a personal .cost of 1,000,000 dollars lias been revealed here, in the f course; of preparations for a new State-wide campaign for. that amount in behalf of mission restoration. Only the ,outbreak of the > War in 1914 prevented the King of . Spain from putting into execution his plans. ; Proposals for the new campaign for mission restoration, are to be r put before the Most Rev. . Edward J'. Hanna, of San Francisco y> arid- the Right Rev. , John J. Cantwell, of ;Los Angeles, i<. nobi v