Diocesan News

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 30, 12 August 1925, Page 30

Diocesan News

'-->■ »■: • • < •••...•■ ..■■■; ■ -■■.-<-■ * Archdiocese of Wellington ! (From -our own correspondent.) ... «v‘., , July 31. ' s There was a fine attendance at : the charity „ ball two nights ago. .■ For weeks beforehand preparations had ?. gone v forward. . = Mrs. Eelliner' and ' Mrs. O’Leary have done Trojan %£****■&■■? ..T: , ... ' •• • -s , V'-'*'- ... it - work as collectors. The ; hall was beautifully 4; decorated tand thronged with dancers.. Every k. color of s the ? rainbow was represented I in I the Wit'.; i: : ." ;a ' ''i i h ;i ’ ■ T- ■ ,t i!;-<«»Vc.X frocking. : During the evening - there was ; a J'' ' V . V- A '.■•■*••■ ■ 7$ spotlight • dance. A dainty supper was provided by an able band of workers, j The pro--4 coeds, as has been before stated, r go. towards ■ the help of the poor of .the city. Mr. R. S. Dwyer was a capable and energetic secretary. .Mr. T. Scott is president of the ■ St. Vincent do -Paul (Buckle Street) branch, by which the dance was conducted. . . . At the Students’ Guild on-Sunday a fine crowd of students assembled to hear Rev. Father Gilbert- lecture on “The Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity.” The Rev. RecV>M ---.u .... - v v •••-’. - , . ■ 4 . » '■tor, in an unneeded apology, explained that : ho had merely stepped in to fill a gap.. The 4lecture traversed . new ground for most of : the members. It .was based on the book of 4 Francis McCullagh, the great journalist who dis coming with the American Fleet. *. As be went bn with the tale, of the Soviet’s brutality to the Orthodox Church and to the Catholic Church many strange things came to light., When the Soviet confiscated the consecrated vessels that, by Canon Law, the ' Patriarch of the Orthodox Church was for- - bidden to yield up, the Pope' offered to purchase the vessels from the Soviet provided they .were restored for its use to the Orthodox Church. That. Church, stirred by a traditional jealousy, was not even, grateful for . the offer. The trials of the - saintly Archbishop Cieplak and the. martyr, Monsignor 4 Budcievicx brought back a wonder that the French Terror could have been so completely 7, repeated in another country in our own times. Because it dealt with the menace of ; ; Anti-Christ and showed that menace to be ■riot a mere written prophecy blit a living threat, that lecture will never be forgotten by the students and 1 their friends. The tale of blood and horror seemed almost incredible in contrast to the quiet of the sunny Sunday on which it was told. ; / -Miss Nina Bezar was received as a Sister 5 of the Order of the Good Shepherd' at Abbotsford, ; Australia, recently. Miss Bezar will be remembered as an active member of the Buckle Street Children of Mary, a popu- ' lar and untiring worker. Her. friends^ will wish for. her a long and joyous life in the cloister which she has chosen. ' • - "•v-Va* 4 - • - ' - - August 7.,,; ■ .■ v Arrangements ; are :well., in hand , for . the. reception of the sailors of the American Fleet, - The old Marist Brothers’ School in , Boulcott Street is being turned into rest and writing rooms for the men. Tl large hall .has a fine dancing floor and there will be dances and other entertainments ,n the evenings, In the evenings, too, refreshments will be served and donations .of food from the Catholics of the city will be much appreciated. They could be left at the hall any

time during the, thirteen days that the Fleet iar to be in Wellington. . : A number ‘ of ladies : -r' 'ii ’ • - 1-‘ ■ • -. v T '"‘ : ’ ■■ .4 V4';from all parishes have volunteered to give their services ; and will : be ; present at the Kill % 4 during the day and the evening. Owners of motor-cars wishing to take the men for drives 7 could call at the hall in Boulcott Street. Anyone desiring to give money towards the : work of ■' entertainment can send "donations . to. Mr. R. Dwyer, c/o Victoria Hotel, Wellington. V, ‘ Under the heading of “Penalised” the fol- : lowing extract from the fine protest of Rev. Father Gilbert, S.M., M.A., appeared in " Tuesday’s Evening Post rrJ. ' 1 •' •*. ;■ Difficulties, . facing some , denominational schools were * placed before the University • Commission this morning by Rev.'T. A. Gilbert, S.M., M.A., Rector of St; Patrick’s College', who pointed out that parents in some cases had to' pay twice. “Private schools in New Zealand,” he ' said, “are totally dependent on their own resourcesthey receive no aid whatsoever from the Government, no scholarships,' bursaries, or free- - places are tenable at private schools. If, therefore, citizens whose principles will-riot allow them to divorce religion from education desire to give, their children a secondary education they are compelled to pay for them twice over, for they have already paid their • quota of taxation, from which the Government advances money for scholarships” free places. Now these parents and pupils, no matter how clever or how poor, are penalised really because of their religion, for the nay to the University ‘ through the - private school is an expensive, one, while the child of even the millionaire may pass through the State secondary school to the University at the expense of the general public. Few can afford to pay for four years at a secondary school, and therefore few remain long enough • to compete' for University scholarships or to qualify for higher-leaving certificates. The result is that many , brilliant students are denied the advantage of a University education. In fairness to the citizens—for we are, all citizens—free places 7 arid ..scholarships should be made tenable at registered private schools even in the interests • of University education. The law of -the land Has never ruled that secondary education shall be secular; it allows the teaching of religion in its - own schools; it should not penalise the teach- - ing of , religion in private schools, by ’ with-; holding •-scholarships and free places. 4 ;: In—some of the Australian • States this request of private secondary schools has been recog- ' nised for years, and many of the most brilliant University students have been the product of the system.” - I lie present pupils beat the past pupils in the annual game of football at St. Pat’s. , Everyone loves a , fancy dress dance, espe- i cially a children’s dance. . Newtown holds one annually. This time the proceeds go to St. Anne’s stall for the Lewisham bazaar. ; The hall was gay with streamers and balloons— fairyland setting for the children in their vivid frocks. Amongst those present r were Rev. .Fathers DWoy, Dillon, and Fallon, Mesdames Andrews, R. J. i Miller, Mills,}’ ami Miss . Snake. . Among .;the"prizewinners ' were Russians, Old English, a wolf, a: Ha- C waiian,- Little Lord Fauntleroy; Cupids, Flowers, Peasant, Fairies, etc. ' Among the f

most original frocks were Frolic, Pack of - Cards, Vegetables, Puck, Sundowner, and’ Orange Smash. Miss A. Simon took charge of ‘ the floor, - assisted' by- Misses I Mulhbllarid “• iand ' Brownthe music being 'supplied by Misses Thyrtt Clark; and Ellin Stratford. Mrs. \ Giles," the stallholder, was assisted by a strong 3 * and ‘ helpful committee. At night a dance " was held for the .-adults rand, was much en- ■ joyed. 1 Mr. Hoskins says all is well with the Lewisham n bazaar preparations. > Full' details will be given next week. - r ; Wanganui : ; V (From onr own Correspondent.) u,,.:.. ' >•../ . v August 4. 4 : The Gonville Fund Food'Fair .took"-place* on • Saturday, August - 1,-at St. Joseph’s School, and was a success. The Children of Mary had two stalls—cakes ■ and • sweets and a jumble stall—Goriville had a stall, and Mrs. / Richardson was inv charge''of the tea stall. Early , customers Were buzzing round .4 the stalls , soon after ten o’clock in- the morning, and business .was good all day, finishing up with the ; drawing of raffles ; at night, under'. : the benign-supervision of the p01ice. ,4.4 . There .will be something else to supervise in a week or two, our Garrison Band ; is having an eight-day carnival. All sections of > the community are : interested; it; being generally understood that a hand is almost as necessary as daylight! Incidentally, the new bandmaster, (Mr. Watson), has arrived from Australia just in time for the carnival. Mr. and Mrs. Watson are members of our congregation and we’re glad to welcome them amongst us. , Mr. Watson comes with good credentials. He has had to do with the very well-known St. Augustine’s Band, on the other side, and, after finishing his-war, ser- - vice abroad, spent some time in England studying band methods. - . - v ; . .. .. f Our latest acquisition j in j Wanganui Is three motor buses, named, I believe, Faith, Hope, and Charity. .Exactly why they > are so named, we do not know, but it is quite likely that the rate-payers will need a good big supply of each virtue, when - rate-paying time comes round. Anyhow, it’s quite time wo had something new to wrangle about, it’s just ages since .a “site” was proposed for anything! It is suggested that the. motor buses do St. John’s Hill and Durie Hillour two gentle slopes! ; v couple of days : in Wanganui, on his way to Ha,wefa and the celebrations there. Archbishop O’Shea and Rev. Father Cullen went through also. -4’ ' * Mail news is to hand from America which 4 tells of the Golden Wedding of Mr. arid Mrs. T. Brogan, , who lived over at Putifci many years ago. . They went to America in 1890, ; prospered there, and have now attained their happy anniversary. Congratulations .to them ; • from old friends. ST. VINCENT DE . PAUL - SOCIETY : PAR- • TICULAR COUNCIL OF WANGANUI. The half-yearly meeting the above 'waiTls held in the ' “Villa” on Thursday 7 July - 23. • Very satisfactory reports were - received from V the various conferences within the circumscription—Palmerston ; North men’s confer- ; ence and - ladies’ anviliarv Sf M n ■■■ ■ ;

ganui, :St. Joseph^,- Aramoho, and St. Agnes’ : (ladies’) ..auxiliary, ; Hawera. -A. feature ;of :: v the .reports is that very : few. cases of distress ; / have :occurred: . during the half-year. The ; ladies’; conferences have done . excellent, .work . making up garments; quite a number-being - p ; :' f supplied r to. orphanages and persons needing, them.; V ” ; v -.;' • iIK/S-■"S Feilding . ■■ ■ - ... ■ (Prom our own correspondent.) IpiilM August 4. Sunday •'next 3 ' August 16, is sure to be a ' V great day in Feilding, for the new church that Has'been talked of for-the past fourteen years is an accomplished fact at last, and the dedication -ceremony will be perform- ; ed by his Grace Archbishop Redwood. The Rev. Father McCarthy, Marist Missioner, is to preach the occasional sermon. Monsignor : ! Power, of Hawera, is to sing the Solemn /•- Mass, and to preach at the evening devotions. The devotional Gregorian chant of the Mass will be snug by the Marist students’ choir from Highden. The parish- ' N ioners will hardly know themselves next Sunday in their beautiful new church, and they are all praying for a fine day. Several of vk- the clergy will honor Feilding parish next Sunday and help to put it well on the map. |ffe , ".. . ; Westport (From our own correspondent.) •K.C. . August 5. Mr. G. F. Vincent, examiner for Trinity College of Music, eulogised the work of the convent pupils, particularising the pupils “ in the higher grades, who entered into the spirit of their music with true artistic temperament. The following are the results: S/k A.T.0.L. : Melba Bevan, 89; Mia Bevan, 83. Higher Local: Mimi Hansen, 70. Senior: 'V , Lorna ScliA\ r ass, 76. Intermediate; Agnes Costello, 90; Levick Kerr, 74. Laurie Larsen, 73; Joseph Kone, 71 Flossie Russell (Granity Convent), 71. Junior: Alice Renno, 81; Ethel Ryan, 81; Molly Cleary, 69. Preparatory; Colin Campbell (Granity Convent), 90. First Steps: Alma Mason, 90; Naomi Morganti (Granity), 85; Marjory Keating, ‘ 80; Barbara Rowley, 80; Colin Hansen, 75. I' Diocese of Auckland (From our own Correspondent.) ' ■. * August 5. The weather in Auckland for the past week has been simply glorious, and elaborate preparations are being made to receive and heartily welcpme. the officers and. men of the American Fleet which arrives in Auckland Harbor on August «11 midday. - Already hundreds of electric colored globes decorate -lik- several of . the local principal buildings. The ’k: .". - city will fee a blaze of light in the evenings. A .committee has been formed to organise entertainments to keep our visitors busy for : ' the fortnight they will spend with us, , and there, is a lively time in store both, for the “ r Fleet and public. The term holidays of the Sacred Heart College and St. Mary’s Convent pupils coinilp.mence on August 13. “This-will he' the first vacation ... since - the ; Christmas holidays, and ' j *' ■ the students are looking forward to a wellfV - earned fortnight’s recreation, free from disI I cipline and study. , *** . Very Rev, Dean Lane, who has been formany years stationed at Gisborne, has been - •*-f> - 4-., ■ v— - * ,■ -»

appointed to take charge of J the Ellerdie parish.- The Dean will take up his new du- - ties at an early date. ■' UiM' ;■ ■ ■ The plain, and fancy dress ball to augment the funds of the new Church of Our Lady * • of the Sacred Heart . was a most successful function. The hall was suitably and taste- : fully, decorated and harmonised with the animated scene made up ,of many quaint and fantastic costumes worn by the merry dancers of both sexes "present." It was one of the brightest and, happiest entertainments yet. held at Epsom, and the committee deserve warm praise for the indefatigable efforts and splendid arrangements which deserved such well-merited success. The gent’s prize for the best study .in fancy dress was won by ■ • Mr.. Coleman, and the ladies’ prize was awarded to Miss Up fold for a really excellent presentation as a Hula Girl. Mesdames Simmonds and Draget were the judges, and gave popular decisions. A euchre tournament was arranged for those who did not dance and created much interest amongst the players. Mr. Bell secured the gents’ trophy, and Mrs. J. Cooke was the successful lady. A capital orchestra under the baton of Mr. Varna Cooke provided excellent dance music for the evening. Mr. Bowater made an untiring secretary. To him much praise is due for his efforts. The church funds will benefit to the extent of £2l as a result of the evening’sentertainment. This function was such an unqualified success that the organisers are contemplating holding another which, should meet with even greater support. The Auckland Competition Society is holding its festival at present in the local Town Hall, where there is a wealth of song, music, elocution, and story presented for the patrons of the arts who daily attend to listen to the city’s budding talent. There are a number of excellent performers, and among them are two promising young artistes from* St. Mary Convent, Ponsonby. Miss Dorothy Mud ford possesses a very sweet soprano voice for sixteen summers, and shows evidence of future possibilities. She has already secured two first prizes, and there is perhaps more to follow before the termination of the competitions. Miss I). O’Brien has also acquitted herself well in the elocutionary section. Her work revealed evidence of careful training in tone, inflexion, emphasis and pausa- - tion that made her performance delightful to listen to. • The Annual Commemoration Mass and Communion of the old boys of the Sacred Heart College will be held at the College on August 30. In view of the big success / of last year’s function, it is anticipated that the re-union this year will eclipse its predeccessor. Cu Thursday at St. Benedict’s Hall the local tennis club - and the Children of Mary held a combined eucre and dance in aid of the parish funds which was well supported by members and friends. The whole programme was commendably arranged and carried out by Mr. Frost, and Miss Yates, as secretaries, assisted by a very energetic committeee who left nothing desired for the enjoyment of their . guests. - These evenings should become very popular if the committee decide to continue them. : ' • * • • • i ~ The annual. football match between past and present students of .the- Sacred Heart :

:;” College :is set down tor decision on Saturday, - and should draw, a great crowd of -parents ! ... . and • friends “to witness - it. . .- The; struggle • always causes intense interest and is a regu- : lar natal; day -at the college. - ’ -i ‘ :M A social evening in the form-of a euchre . party and’ dance Was held in the Papatoetoe 7 : ~<t Hall- on r . Wednesday last to raise funds for ' , - the new- church -recently’ erected by volunt- - r ■: ary" labor,* and to "improve• the grounds. v- The ; > ladies of Papatoetoe are to, be congratulated - ’ on the magnificent success the entertainment;; M proved/' The /ladies’-’' prize was won by Mrs. -* •;V Aitkinson; • and the gent’s ; prize by Mr. J. i- " Grinter. Miss : Vera Page, and Mr.. Vic. c Prior were awarded the- consolation prizes. • Motor charabancs from :Otahuhu, Wiri, Ellerslie, and as far as Herne Bay, : Auckland; ‘. brought large*-loads of passengers to assist : the Papatoetoe Catholics in the : endeavor - to establish a church. Rev. Father Skinner,, thanked the visitors for their assistance;, and < -',--!,?5s the hearty manner in which all entered into the evening’s amusement;:: Judging by. the 1 -n success of the first - function, it; is • certain M ■ that further socials will be held.- ■ - ■ -• Early in September,•'•Rev/ Father McCarthy,' S.M., is to open a Week’s Mission in the .•■■■, Papatoetoe Church,''• and Otahuhu will • then: be visited for a similar purpose. • •••,:• Diocese of Christchurch o (Prom our own Correspondent.) 1 ... - August 3. His Lordship Dr, Brodie left Christchurch v on Tuesday last for the West Coast, returning oil Saturday. Ross was his principal objective. ... . * a.. The appreciation of his Lordship the Bishop, the clergy and parishioners of the Cathedral, is.extended to the Sisters of the Missions for their devotedness in teaching ; catechism on Sunday afternoons at Hailing- / - ton and Beckenham. The good attendances 1 are a source of consolation to the Sisters. ' : The recently formed St. Bede’s College Old M Boys’ Association has decided to. hold an ah * nual dance, and its initial effort in- this direction was held at “Dixieland” on Thursday evening. The decorations arid supper arrangements were good—the former tasty, with the college colors in prominence, and the latter plenteous and of first grade; whilst ; : the music supplied by Bailey’s': band - - was tuneful, . spirited, arid ‘. in excellent time. The ball-room accommodation was fully taxed so large was the attendance, and the committee is to be. warmly complimented on thorn annex* in which it • catered - 1-1 for the enjoyment of the guests. ; Many old _ boys came in from distant parts of the coun- " ' try, even from the West Coast— a feature showing attachment to the college , arid tlieir interest in its welfare. Rev, Dr. Geaney ’ u;| (rector) arid Rev. Fathers Dowling, Cullen, and Buckley,' members of the teaching’staff MI of St. Bede’s, were interested onlookers. Well deserving of being singled out the V joyous throng was Mrs. Walter . Clifford, whose , generous treatment of the boys is so well known and whose support of everything v ' connected with the college is always to hand.' ' ] The members of the organising committee .: Messrs. L. P. Barrett, F. ■ Fogarty, J. P. Flood, A. T. O’Reilly, and R. W. Lattimore (hon. sec.) — to be commended for their ,'u. ■. , ■■ r 7, ... .»....v. - ■ !.k ■ ■■* r -v-j'* s ?- .enterprise and the success that attended ■ j.rT"'*"’”' a' : i" ■*; v ■- <*»■«? *rr< ... .'ys-v-.T • their efforts. , ,