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AMBITION IS REALISED AT RIVERTON WHEN THE PALLOTINE MISSION CENTRE AT RIVERTON OPENED ITS DOORS IN 1956 AS A HOSTEL AND TRAINING C ENTRE FOR YOUNG NATIVES, HAROLD LITTLE WAS ITS FIRST BOY. Last Saturday, eight and half years later, Harold, now 22, was guest of honour at a social evening held at the centre to mark the occasion of his becoming a tradesman. Harold, whose parents live near Mt. Magnet, came to the centre after completing his primary schooling at the Tardun Mission Centre. He received his secondary education from the Christian Brothers at Clontarf. After completion of his schooling, he entered an apprenticeship as a carpenter and joiner with a Victoria Park firm where he completed his five years training.
PERTH FOOTBALLER Among Harold's many friends who attended the social were his league football coach Ern Henfry and the secretary of the Perth Football Club, Mr. J. O'Dea. In his short address, Mr. Henfry said that Harold was a very popular and respected personality in the club. Councillor M. Nicholls from the Canning Shire Council made a presentation and congratulated Harold on his achievement of being a qualified tradesman. He is the first from the Mission to reach this goal. A letter from the Commissioner of Native Welfare, Mr. E. F. Gare, congratulating Harold on this important milestone in his life was also read out. Riverton parishioners and school friends of the Mission girls and boys made a large and colourful gathering, mixing happily with one another on the dance floor. Father John Luemmen, S.A.C., superior and mentor at the Mission, extended a vote of thanks for the kind remarks made by the speakers and thanked the many voluntary helpers for the great success of the evening. He said the occasion could not have been a happier one, seeing so many friends joining the celebration of the first boy's work well done. When asked to comment on his stay at the Mission Centre, Harold said: "Of the eight and a half years spent at Riverton, I don't regret one day of it." Harold will remain at Riverton until after the football season when he intends to go on a three-month working holiday to the Eastern States.
Vietnam Hunger Strike By FATHER PATRICK O'CONNOR, S.S.C., from SAIGON.
It is said that several prisoners have contracted tuberculosis. According to the Mini stry of the Interior, 180 are still held for investigation at national security headquarters. Many of these are Catholics.
COME former officials of 11° President Ngo Dinh Diem's government, now NO SALARY prisoners in national secuThese former officials, rity headquarters here, threatened to go on hunger civilian and military, of strike last week, according the late President Ngo to well-informed sources; Dinh Diem's government Most of them have been have been receiving no held since last November salary during the months on suspicion, or on charges of detention. Many of them have young families. Their still unproved. A letter signed by rela- wives are selling personal tives of 100 prisoners held belongings to keep families for investigation was pub- • going. Some of their chillished by Tu Do (Free- dren suffer from plain dom) daily, appealing to hunger. Prime Minister MajorSome of those detained General Nguyen Khanh to have been released for liberate "our husbands, lack of evidence, but have f athers and brothers." not been reinstated in their employment. Accord T.B. WORRY ing to an official source, "Our relatives in prison 200 prisoners went on a are for the most part vic- hunger strike for ten days tims of lies, personal in June on Conson Island. grudges or baseless opin- a penal settlement former ions," the writers declared. ly called Polllo Condore.
Councillor M. Nicholls presents Harold Little with his certificate at the Pallottine Mission social.
PIDGIN LNGIISH MASS ENCYCLICAL MAY FOR BE ISSUED SOON NEV GUINEA By JAMES C. O'NEILL from VATICAN CITY
A MAJOR PAPAL DOCUMENT, MOST LIKELY
AN ENCYCLICAL, IS EXPECTED TO BE ISSUED SOME TIME BEFORE THE THIRD SESSION OF THE ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OPENS HERE ON SEPTEMBER 14.
No official announce- custom dictates that a ment of the document has newly elected Pope issue been made by the Vati- an encyclical shortly can, but unofficially vari- after his election to set ous Vatican sources con- forth the aims of his firm the fact that Pope reign, a sort of platform Paul VI is working On document which sets the what will probably be tone of the pontificate. the first encyclical of his But Pope Paul has not pontificate. followed this custom. InItalian newspapers have stead, he noted in his been full of speculations speech opening the Ecuon the document's form menical Council's second and content. Several session last year that the papers have stated flatly address, setting forth the that it will be devoted to goals of the council, birth control. One paper would take the place of linked the subject of the an encyclical. document with its rumSpeculation that the oured date of issue, the Pope was readying a feast of St. Anne, patron- major document increasess of Christian mothers ed greatly in early July and childbirth, on July because all private and 26. special audiences were Reliable sources, how- cancelled by the Pope ever, seriously doubt prior to his departure on both the rumoured date July 15 from the Vatican and the statement that for his summer home in the document deals pri- Castel gandolfo. marily with birth control. It has also been rumInstead, it is most likely oured that the document that the encyclical will will be issued on August deal with Pope Paul's 15. Although the docuprogramme of action for ment may carry that his pontificate, with per- date, it is unlikely that haps some reference to it will be published on problems posed by the that day, because it is a so-called population ex- major holiday in Italy plosion. when no newspapers are The Pope has delayed printed and almost the issuing an encyclical for entire population of cities more than a year after such as Rome leaves his election. Normally. town.
SYDNEY: PLANS for the introduction of pidgin English into the liturgy in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea are being prepared by missionaries in the area. This was revealed by an American missionary, Father William Ross, S.V.D., here. Father Ross was en route to the United States on seven months' leave from the Mt. Hagen Vicariate. He said the introduction of pidgin English into the Mass would be made in the near future. As a missionary of 38 years' experience in New Guinea, he said that his t wo greatest present-day impressions of the territory were the tremendous changes which had taken place in the natives' way of life and the work of the Australian Government in preparing the area for independence. BROTHER KILLED Father Ross, a fell priest and a Brother set out from Mt. Hagen in 1934, thus becoming the first Catholic missionaries to penetrate this wild country. The Brother was killed by natives in December, 1934, but the American priest and his companion managed to survive through several dangerous years by pacifying the jungle
dwellers through medical care. Father Ross added that the beginning of their triumph came with the baptism of their first native onvert in 1938. The extent of their success can be gauged from the fact that there' are now more than 50.000 Catholics in the Mt. Hagen Vicariate and 9.000 of these are in Father Ross' parish. DEEP FAITH Sincerity is the mark of these first generation Christians, according to the v eteran missionary. As e vidence of the depth of t heir faith, Father Ross said that many of them undertook an hour's walk each morning to attend daily Mass. Father Ross praised the w ork of the Australian a dministration in the territory. He said that the Australian Government had allocated £ 22 million for its tasks in the area for 1964 alone. The natives received free medical treatment, legal aid and education, and everything possible was being done to ensure that the population would be as prepared as possible for independence.