SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 45, 12 November 1924, Page 31

SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL

PARTICULAR SOCIETY OF DUNEDIN.

: The quarterly meeting of the Particular Council of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, Dunedin, was held at St. Joseph’s Halt, on Monday evening, the 3rd inst. His Lordship the Bishop and Rev. Fathers Delany and Kaveney, Adm., were present, and the meeting was attended by representatvies of St. Joseph’s, St, Patrick’s, and the suburban conferences of the • society. Besides the council's report and statement of accounts, reports from all the conferences, and also from the District Nurse were read. The balance sheet gave receipts (with £59 3s lid carried forward from the- July quarter) as follows: — Otago Rugby Union Charity Match,, £35; Blakeley Trust, £B2 10s; 'Commercial Travellers’ Bag Day, £65 2s lOd; total, £241 16s 9d. The expenditure included nurse’s salary, £3O ss; medicine, £1 3s; printing, 17s 6d, and sundry expenses, 12s lid; leaving a credit balance of £2OB 18s 4d. (The president in reviewing the business brought before the meeting stressed the importance of the work of visiting shipsan outstanding feature of the society’s activities during the quarter. The duty of visiting all ships arriving in Otago Harbor is undertaken alternately by the various conferences, an arrangement which has been found to work satisfactorily and with very gratifying results. The reports from all the conferences showed that a great amount of good work was . being done. V An excellent paper on ‘The Church and Science” (the first portion of which is given on page 25 of this issue) was then read. . In proposing a vote of thanks to the writer, his Lordship the Bishop very warmly complimented him on the fin© statement of the case he had presented. v The subject (he said) had been treated in a most instructive, learned, and entertaining manner. The paper was excellent in ©very way , and all were delighted in listening to its delivery. Several others spoke in support of the ‘notion which " was enthusiastically carried, and the contributor suitably replied. v; •