HOSKIN’S MEMORIAL HOSTEL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1943, Page 5

HOSKIN’S MEMORIAL HOSTEL

WELLINGTON YOUTH CENTRE. CAMPAIGN IN MASTERTON. Visiting Mastertpn this week is the Rev. W. Heavey, Administrator of St. Joseph’s Parish, Buckle Street, Wellington. He has been released from his duties to promote in each centre the laymen’s organisation, which has for its project, the erection in Wellington of the Paul Hoskin’s Memorial Youth Hostel. The late Paul Hoskins, perhaps best known as the president for New Zealand of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, was a distinguished layman, whose services as a welfare worker had earned him respect and esteem not only in Wellington but throughout New Zealand. It was because of his inspiration in this matter, as well as because of his great work in practical charity, that at a public meeting on Novembei’ 20, 1941, the decision was reached to proceed to the erection of the “Paul Hoskins Memorial Hostel.” The eminent suitability of the site selected has moved the committee to plan an institution which will serve not only as a youth hostel, but also as a centre providing every facility for youth activity and recreation. As such an institution will benefit young men throughout the Wellington province, who at any time may be employed in Wellington, the financing of the project is upon a diocesan scale. Entirely a laymen’s scheme, committees of collectors, who will solicit donations in small amounts at regular intervals over a period of time, are being set up in each centre.

The Rev. W. Heavey and Mr J. Foote, the secretary of the Central Wellington Committee, outlined the scheme to a gathering of St. Patrick’s parishioners. At a subsequent meeting Mr F. Corry, organised for Masterton. met a number of parishioners and launched the activities for Masterton. In the near future the plan will be operating throughout the Archdiocese of Wellington.