ARCHDJOCESE OF WELLINGTON

New Zealand Tablet, 4 March 1915, Page 35

ARCHDJOCESE OF WELLINGTON

(From our own correspondent.) February 27. An art union in aid of St. Mary’s church-school, Seatoun, was drawn at St. Anne’s Hall last Monday evening under the direction of the Yen. Archdeacon Devoy. The quarterly general meeting of the St. Vincent de Paul Society took place at St. Patrick’s Hall on last Sunday. Bro. L. T. Reichel presided, and among those present was his Grace Archbishop O’Shea. . The St. Patrick’s Day celebration committee met at St. Patrick’s Hall last Friday under the presidency of Mr. J. P. McGowan. It was decided to make a feature of the procession by having national tableaux on decorated lorries, and to supply the children with bannerets. An exhibition of Irish hurling will be given by the local club, which was recently formed. An attractive sports programme has been arranged. The concert promises to be of the same high standard as of previous years. Messrs. W. Farquhar Young, A. G. Hay, J. Jago, and P. Barry, and Misses Mildred Wrighton, Teresa McEnroe, Agnes Segrief, and Master B. O’Brien have been engaged to contribute. In addition there will be attractive choruses by the Marist Brothers’ Schools’ pupils. The profits of the celebration will be devoted to the Catholic education , fund.' The half-yearly meeting of the Dominion Council of the N.Z. Catholic Federation took place at the Federation rooms last Wednesday, Mr. D. L. Poppelwell (president) occupied the chair, and there were also present his Grace Archbishop O’Shea, the Very Rev. Deans Hyland (Rangiora), Power (Hawera), and Darby (Hamilton), the. Rev. Fathers Cooney (Lyttelton),. Daly (Upper Hutt), Edge (Auckland), and Hurley (Wellington), Messrs. W. Hayward (Christchurch), Lynch (Wellington), B. McLaughlin (Auckland), Hussey

(Dunedin). - The meeting lasted all day and did not conclude until the evening. ' A large amount of business was transacted. A full report of the meeting will be forwarded later. •