Te Kuiti

New Zealand Tablet, 28 July 1921, Page 23

Te Kuiti

(From our own correspondent.) July 22. On July 3 a meeting of about 30 residents of Te Kuiti formed themselves into a branch of the Self-Determination for Ireland League of New Zealand. The office-bearers elected wer#: —Chairman. Mr. W. F. Hoffman (an Anglican); secretary, Mr. L. F. M. McKeefry; treasurer, Mr J. Daly; committee, Messrs. Atkins, Dooley, OConnell, and McSweeney (cousin of the late Lord Mayor of Cork). The branch has progressed rapidly, and it now numbers over a hundred members. The annual subscription appears to be too small for some members, who insist on larger donations. Hence many £1 subscriptions are the result. As the League's aim is to educate the general public and enlist their support, an invitation has been extended to Mr. Hall Skelton (president of the Auckland council), to repeat in Te Kuiti his lecture on the "Irish cause from a Protestant standpoint," which he delivered recently in Auckland. There are so many here holding anti-Irish opinions inculcated by the daily press, that the success of such a lecture, is a foregone conclusion. Mr. Skelton has a way of convincing his audience, and we look forward to heavy enrolments as the result of his lecture. ;'