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Conference Plans To Beat The Housing Racketeers Catholic housing experts have met in conference to pool plans to beat the property racketeers in the booming overpopulated industrial areas of Britain. The conference, first on a natinal level ever held by the Catholic Housing Aid Society, c oincided with further newspaper disclosures of millionaire property gangsters operating in poorer industrial areas and among immigrants and with a bitter parliamentary row over the crisis caused by rocketing house prices. The society's members include professional men in law, property dealing , and secular housing society management as well as priests. Their normal function in the places where they operate—London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool —is to advise Catholic homebuyers and provide financial help where possible for large lower-income families unable to pay high rents Qr mortgages.
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to get together in their spare time and build their own houses under expert guidance. Speakers also urged parishes to set up advisory boards of experts to help people seeking homes and for affiliated parochial groups to try to raise funds to provide direct loans for couples without sufficient cash to cover deposits needed for securing mortgages. The government has set up a £ A31,500,000 fund for voluntary non-profitmaking housing programmes, but the conference was told this does not help people in the tower-income groups. The government plan envisages programmes for building 40 to 80 houses at a time at a cost of £ A5,040 to £A6.300 each.
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One of their main aims discussed at the conference was to buy houses themselves and let them out at just rents or split them up into suitable apartments. Another is to orgarke house-buying saving programmes for young people. I' was pointed out that one Catholic parish priest-Father Eamonn Casey, at Slough, Buckinghamshire. near London—had with the aid of a benefactor deposited £ A1,260 in a local bank to obtain a loan of £ A6,300 on the strength of which 19 local families were able to _put dawn deposits to purchase houses of their own. The principle of the parish savings plan is that parishioners deposit a fixed sum weekly with the local Catholic housing society which invests it in the parishioner's name partly with a reputable building society and partly with a bank. This builds up for the individual a reputation for steady saving with both institutions and enables him to secure better terms when eventually he goes to seek a mortgage.
S ELF -BUILT Another practical proposal made at the conference was to persuade groups of young people with good jobs
The first large group of Australian Hierarchy to leave for the second session of the Second Vatican Council passed through Fremantle on Monday last.
—Photo courtesy "The Southern Cross,- Adelaide
• SIMON PETER BURLEY (left), of Aquinas College, Adelaide. shows his brother HARRY the letter telling him he has won the Horace Nowland Scholarship (See Story Page Three). Harry. 23. has a Bachelor degree in Economics and is engaged on research in econometrics of Australian wool markets at the University of Adelaide. He is on a Reserve Bank of Australia grant.
Australia's Youth Workers Work Out Their Future
The National Council of the Young Christian Workers Movement commenced in Adelaide on August 8 and will continue to A ugust 14. The Girls' Council will be held from August 11 to 16. Eighty boys and 97 girls are attending as delegates and observers, representing 19 dioceses and every State. They will confer on many of the problems of youth discovered over the past 12 Months and decide on action Which will be carried out by the 10,000 members in Australia. During the council, plans will be discussed for a National Work. Enquiry Campaign on be part This campaign will of the International triquiry on Work which is being conducted by every Y.C.W. world, Movement in the the results of which Will present a world-wide
picture of the situations and problems of working youth. Facts which will be used as a basis for discussion at the councils were gathered from city areas and rural districts. They incltide the example of one rural centre where last year 140 left school—of these only fifty found employment in their home town and only seven
were employed as apprentices.
In the city, one of the biggest problems was the number of young people living away from home and the dfficulties encountered, such as the lack of suitable ac-
commodation, the cost of
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living is much higher in the city, lack of contact with their family. From these discussions an Enquiry Campaign will be drawn up on work to be carried out by every branch in Australia.
gard to behaviour, clothes and their leisure time. In the isolated regions, there is very little entertainment available and a lack of initiative in organising their own activities is apparent.
LEISURE TIME
The official opening of the council will take place on Sunday night, August 11, in the Adelaide Town Hall. Among those present will be Most Rev. L. J. Goody. D.D., Ph.D., of Bunbury, Episcopal Chairman of the Girls' Section Most Rev. J. W. Gleeson, D.D., of Ade7 laide, and members of the Adelaide City Council. This official function is open to the public.
The problems of young people in their leisure time will algo be discussed as it has been found that very little is Ming done, particularly in rural areas, to help them make better use of their leisure time. In Queensland, it has been found that the heat seems to
rule the lives of young people, particularly in re-
They were HIS EMINENCE C ARDINAL GILROY, Archbishop of Sydney, ARCHBISHOP BEOVICH, Archbishop of Adelaide, ARCH-
BISHOP SIMONDS, Coadjutor -Archbishop of Melbourne. ARCHBISHOP O'DONNELL, Coadjutor Archbishop of Brisbane. BISHOP GALLAGHER, the B ishop of Port Pine, BISHOP MULDOON. Auxiliary to Cardinal Gilroy. Travelling in the liner Galileo, the prelates will reach Rome some weeks before the commencement of the second session of the Council.
TO LUNCH His Grace the Archbishop met the prelates at the boat and entertained them to lunch at the Bishop's Palace. They returned to the Galileo later in the afternoon. Travelling in the same ship as the prelates was Monsignor E. Sullivan, the parish priest of St. Brigid's, West Perth, who was going on six months' leave, which he will spend mainly in Rome.
LEAVE UTER Other Australian prelates will shortly begin to move to Rome. His Lordship Bishop Goody, of Bunbury, will leave after he has attended a Y.C.W. conference in Adelaide. His Grace the Archbishop will leave by air later in September. Bishop Thomas, of Geraldton, has
already left.
P.M. To Donate Prize The Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, has offered to donate the award for the prize-winning production in the First National Catholic Schools' Drama F estival. The festival, which opens at the Assembly Hall on August 31, is sponsored by the Perth Therry Society. It will include plays by schools representing Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales and Western Australia. Sir Robert has commissioned a West Australian artist, Miss Heather McSwain, to design and execute the work, which will be a wall plaque of glazed pottery. It will feature the traditional Greek masks of tragedy and comedy. The masks are represented as Elizabethan characters symbolic of the golden age of British drama. The whole conception is to have a typically Australian robust humour, thus harmonising Grecian, Elizabethan and Australian characteristics. ,