NEW BUILDING

Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1930, Page 1

NEW BUILDING

AT WELLINGTON HOME. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 10. The new convent building attached to the Home of Compassion at Island Bay was officially opened this afternoon by His Grace Archbishop O’Shea. The new building which is practically completed has cost £25,000, of which sum £IB,OOO is already in hand. Archbishop O’Shea, in his address, said that the Catholic people were engaged in a very large building programme and buildings to the value of over £200,000 were being erected throughout Wellington and the Wellington diocese during the recent year. An institution such as the Home ot Compassion was a concrete expression of their solicitude for poor, needy, and the unfortunate. That solicitude had been shown right down through tiie ages and from her very beginning the Catholic Church had enunciated the great principle that underlay her social and charitable activities namely, that what the rich gave to the poor was only a return to God for the worldly possession with which they were blessed. Mr R. McKeen,M.P., said that the work of the Home of Compassion was an undenominational work, in that no differentiation was made as to the religion of the different inmates. The Home of Compassion, he said, had nothing to equal it, throughout New Zealand and Australia.