NEW YORK CARDINAL AND IRISH PRELATES
To Visit N.Z. Next Month P.A. AUCKLAND, April 7. The Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Spellman, in a letter to Bishop J. M. Liston, of. Auckland, has accepted the invitation of the Catholic Bishops of New Zealand to visit the Dominion after the Catholic centenary celebrations in Melbourne at the beginning of May. Cardinal Spellman will arrive at Auckland from Sydney on Wednesday, May 12, and spend the following day here, leaving by plane for Wellington on Friday, May 14, and returning to Auckland that afternoon. He will go by air to Sydney and Brisbane on Saturday. Cardinal Spellman was to have come in 1945 to New Zealand from the Far East to thank the Government and people for their hospitality to American servicemen, but was unable to do so. The Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of All Ireland, Dr. John F. d’Alton, hopes also to visit Auckland after (lie Melbourne celebrations, and the Archbishop of Tuam, Ireland, Dr. Joseph Walsh, will spend a few days here towards the end of Maj 7 as the guest of Dr. Liston and the other Bishops of New Zealand.
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Grey River Argus, 8 April 1948, Page 6
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