RECORD TOTAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 85, 7 October 1940, Page 4

RECORD TOTAL

COLLECTION FOR CATHOLIC

EDUCATION

. The highest Sunday penny collection in the board's history was reported to the twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Wellington Catholic Education Trust Board. The total was £1695, which was £200 higher than the previous year. The report and statement of accounts showed a successful year's working, the ordinary revenue account showing a surplus of £195. The capital account was augmented by a legacy of £1000 bequeathed to the board by the late Dr. Patrick Mackin, and donations of £166, including one of £100 from Mr. Edmond Magner. Eltham. These, with the surplus of £195 from the ordinary revenue account, brought the total of the capital account to £26,692. . Since the abolition of school fees in 1929, the report stated, the capital account had to be encroached upon to the extent of £2825 to meet the deficiencies in the ordinary revenue account, and it was the ambition of the board to recover this amount for the capital fund by endeavouring to increase the yearly revenue. It has been suggested that those who could do so sboiild make their Sunday offering twopence instead of one penny. Since the compilation of the report, advice had been received that the late Mrs. George Brown, who died recently, had bequeathed her home, valued at £1500, to the board. The question of increasing the staffs at the Marist Brothers' schools was deferred till the board's next meeting in December.

The success of the schools under the board, Was recorded in the report, which stated that the Government inspection of the schools resulted in excellent reports being received, which mdicated that they were efficiently conducted and measured up to the standard set by the Government Education Department. The religious and moral training, which was the fundamental work of these schools, in no way interfered with the secular education. The only true education was the combination of both religious and secular instruction.

The following officers were elected for the ensuing year:—Patron and chairman, Archbishop O'Shea; vicechairman, Right Rev. Monsignor Connolly, V.G.; treasurer, Mr. J. G. Roache; secretary, Mr. P. D. Hoskins; auditors, Messrs. W. H. Giles and J. Stratford; trustees, Right Rev. Monsignor Mcßae and Mr. J. G. Roache. Archbishop 'O'Shea presided, and others present were the Rev. Fathers Stewart, Heavey, and Uhlenberg, and Messrs. L. Carroll and J. Troy.