CATHOLIC HUT
AMENITIES FOR SOLDIERS. At an estimated cost of £I3OO, additions are to be made to the Catholic soldiers’ hut in Papakura camp. Addressing a meeting at which it was decided to form a Catholic soldiers’ welfare committee, Bishop Liston said Catholics had volunteered for service in numbers far exceeding all reasonable expectations. Of 3000 men in the Third Echelon at Papakura, 700 were Catholics.’ The existing facilities were quite inadequate. The movement to enlarge the hut was sponsored by the Sacred Heart College Old Boys’ Association. A general committee representative of the parishes has been formed to raise £2OOO for the enlargement and furnishing of the hut, to conduct a buffet with the help of Catholic women’s societies and a committee of Papakura parishioners, to organise entertainment, and to arrange for hospitality in private homes when men are on week-end leave.
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Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 14, 2 August 1940, Page 3
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