ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

New Zealand Tablet, 22 September 1921, Page 19

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

(From our own correspondent.) . September 16. Efforts are being made by the general secretary of the Catholic Federation to cope with the housing difficulty, and for that purpose is compiling a list of Catholics who have rooms to spare and are prepared to let them. People seeking rooms or who have rooms to let should communicate with the secretary, Box 958, Wellington. Miss Frances Cullen, daughter of Mr. W. Cullen, Island Bay, and a pupil of the Sacred Heart Primary School, Island Bay, was successful in passing the recent stenotypists examination, securing first place with 100 per cent, marks. A garden party to raise funds for providing a chapel for the Seatoun Preparatory College, will bo held at the College grounds on Saturday, October 15, and the Sisters of Mercy, who are working hard to ensure a success, invite all friends and sympathisers. The bazaar in aid of the Convent of Mercy, Newtown, will be opened in St. Anne’s Hall, on Saturday, October 8. The half-yearly meeting of the Wellington Diocesan Council of the Catholic Federation will take place at New Plymouth in January next. This location was decided upon to give the Taranaki branches an opportunity of securing direct representation, and it is expected that there will be a large attendance of delegates. Recently the Marist Brothers’ Old Boys Debating Team (Messrs. J. Coleman, J. Boyce, and S. Hoskins) journeyed to the Hutt and there met the St. Peter’s branch of the H.A.C.B. Society in a debate held under the auspices of the Wellington Catholic Societies’ Debating Guild. The subject was: “That the present system of immigration is not in the best interests of New Zealand.” The debate was awarded to the Marist Brothers’ old boys by the judges, the Rev. Father Carmine and Mr. Hodgens.