ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLIX, Issue 49, 14 December 1922, Page 27

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

(From our own correspondent.) , ' December 8.; The seventh annual report and statement of accounts in connection with the Wellington Catholic Women’s Hostel has just been issued, and discloses a very successful' year. The receipts totalled £2413 and the expenditure £2227. The Board was able to transfer the sum of £2OO to the building fund account, thus reducing the overdraft to £657. Various improvements in the property have been effected, including an improved hot water service and retaining, wall. The following constitute the Board of Management:—His Grace Archbishop O’Shea, Very Rev. Dean Holley, S.M.; Rev. Father P. F. Cullen, Adm., Misses Kennedy and Craig, Messrs. M. J. O’Malley (chairman), W. F. Johnson (secretary and treasurer), M. J. Reardon, J. J. O’Gorman, J. J. Troy, 0. Krohn, and 0. P. McKenzie, The services of Major Halpin and Mr. W. Stevenson were lost to the Board through their removal from Wellington. The accommodation of the hostel has been taxed to its utmost capacity, and demonstrates the necessity for such an institution to safe-guard Catholic young women living away from home. _ • . An official pronouncement was made by the clergy in all the Catholic churches in the city last Sunday regarding the announcements published by the “Irish Catholic ,Prohibition League.” The pronouncement stated: “This alleged league had the audacity to send to his Grace the Archbishop an insulting and scurrilous letter in which it was stated that practically all Irish Catholics, cleric as well as lay, suffered as the result of drunken parentage. We endeavored to obtain from the secretary some information as to the constitution, rules, and personnel of the league, but without success. From reliable sources, however, it has since been ascertained that the- league in question consists of fewer than twelve members. They would be unworthy of notice, were it not that some Catholics may be misled by their apparently well-financed advertising campaign, . . We strongly urge all Catholics net to associate in any way with this league or its members.”

The Wellington Diocesan Council of the Catholic Federation will Told its half-yearly meeting in January at which it is expected there will bo a largo attendance. All remits for consideration should be sent in forthwith.