DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 13, 1 April 1909, Page 503

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By Telegraph from our own correspondent.)

March 29. . Ike Executive Directory of the Hibernian Society- is anxious that every district should be represented at the next biennial meeting to be held in Hobart three months hence. Contributions to- the management funds are inadequate, consequently the fund is low and efforts must be made at Hobart to make it i sound and workable. At a meeting of the St. Patrick's Day celebration committee, held this evening, Mr. J. J. O'Brien in the chair, the > Vicar-General and a large number of priests being present, a communication was" received from the Bishop, in which he requested that a provisional committee be formed, with the Bishop or the Vicar-General as chairman, with three priests (Fathers Mahoney, Edge, and Holbrook), and three laymen (Messrs. J. J. O'Brien, P. J. Ncrlieny, and M. J. Sheehan). The duty of the provisional committee would be to receive and arrange for tho banking of the money in hand in the name of tlie Bishop, Father Mahoney, and Mr. J. J. O'Brien; to draw up resolutions as suggestions to clergy and, laity of the whole diocese, so that a representative committee of clergy and laity be appointed, and thus all will have an interest in this work connected with the schools of the diocose. The whole of the financial returns from the carnival have not yet been rccoived. The executive committee meets again on Thursday night. Mr. Paul Kavanagh, late of St. Patrick's College, has been chosen to represent the Auckland TJnivorsifcy at the annual University tournament to bo held in the Town Hall, "Wellington, on Easter Saturday. Mr. Kavanagh is the youngest representative yot chosen by Auckland University.