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SIXTY-SEVENTH YEAR.
PERTH, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1940.
NO, 2,926.
Golden Jubilee of Beagle Bay Mission Last week the Beagle Bay Mission to Aborigines, in the Kimberley Vicariate, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation. His Lordship Bishop Raible, P.S.M.. Vicar-Apostolic, solemnly opened five days of liturgical celebrations and other festivities, which concluded on Sunday, June
23.
His Grace the Archbishop celebrated Mass on June 20, the anniversarv of the first Mass celebrated by Bishop Gibney.
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Visitors from the South and aborigines from the remotest parts of the great native reserve of Dampier Land were gathered at Beagle Bay, the headquarters ofi the Pallotine Fathers, who administer the Vacariate of the KimDuring the month of berley. June, His Excellency the \postolie Delegate, Most Rev. J. Panico. S.T.D.. JU.D., accompanied bv Verv Rev. James H. Hannan, D.D.. National Director of the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies, paid a special visit to Beagle Bay in honour of the jubilee year. His Excellency was deeply impressed with the missionary work in the North-West and the model settlement at Beagle Bay.
first vears of his administration he sent a priest occasionally to visit the ports on the north-west coast. Bishop Gibney, who was then in charge of Perth diocese, was very anxious to open a mission to the blacks in the far north oi Western Australia. In 1889 he went up to Derby and rode across the country to a place where now Beagle Bay Mission is situated. He picked the site himself and worked with his own hands, day after day, clearing the bush. erecting little cottages, and planting bananas, sugar cane, and other tropical plants.
gle Bay and were rather numerous at that time. These Fathers worked with untiring zeal for the conversion of the blacks, but were recalled by their Superiors in 1900.
He then handed the mission over to the Trappist Fathers, who had volunteered to take on missionarv work amongst the blacks of the Nvol-Nvol tribe, who were roaming in the bush around Bea-
In 1907 the first Sisters arrived at the Beagle Bay Mission. They came from Subiaco, Perth, and belonged to the Sisters of St. John of God. During the Great War. the mission suffered a great loss by the death of the SuperiorFather Thomas. Special restrictions placed on foreigners made it impossible to receive help from Germanv, from whence the Pallottine Fathers had come. Consequently, the Sacred Congregation oi the Propagation of the Faith called the Salesian Fathers to the Vicariate and appointed the first Vicar-Apostolic-Dr. Coppo, of the same society-in
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In a remarkable tribute, the Apostolic Delegate said: "This is the nearest thing that I have seen to what I imagine must have been the life in the famous Jesuit Reductions in the Paraguay.' Established by the Holy See in Vicariate Kimberley was first administered to by the Bishop of Perth, who acted as AdIn the ministrator-Apostolic.
Bishop Kelly, of Geraldton, under whose care the Vicariate then was, secured the services of the Pallottine Fathers, and the first priests and Brothers arrived at Beagle Bay Mission in March. 1901. A branch was established in Broome, and later on in badina. Broome is 80 miles south of Beagle Bay, and Lombadina 50 miles north of Beagle Bay.
MOST REV DR. RAIBLE, P.SM.
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After a few years the above mentioned restrictions were withdrawn, and in 1923 the Vicariate was entrusted to the care of the Pallottine Fathers of the German Province. It has been their aim since. not only to maintain and develop the existing missions, but also to extend their activities more inland. where still numerous tribes have not yet received the benefit of our holy faith.
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