L
i
I
f?ccot
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF Lud;es Hoirstybst
No. 3180. Perth, Thursday, February 11,
THE
ARCHDIOCESE
1965•
Registered
OF
at
RE - ROOF NOW with
HARD BURNT CLAY ROOFING TILES
PERTH
the
transmission by post
G.P.O., Perth, for as a Newspaper. )
rice ••• •
— P • P
P1AR KING T INCLUDE NON-GOVT. Pianist Returns SCHOOLS IN POLICIES ST2117E721 S
For the first time all major party leaders have included some form of assistance to parents of children in independont schools in their policy speeches for the State Elections to be held on February 20.
The Hawke Government in 1955 made history as the first Australian State Government in nearly a century to legislate and assist independent schools. There have been various other measures of assistance added to the statute book since. The last was admission of independent schools to most subsidy benefits enjoyed by State School Parents and Citizens' Associations by the Brand Government in the 1964 session of Parliament. The significant advance in the present electoral policies is that party leaders have emphasised in their policy speeches and subsequent publicity that benefits which they propose will be enjoyed by independent schools. This follows the pattern set in last year's Federal Elections when Sir Robert Menzies promised science aid grants and Mr. Calwell promised increased secondary school scholarships. 7,Az Party proposals to the electorate in the coming State election are: L.C.L. AND COUNTRY PARTY • A tuition fee subsidy of £ 15 per year for the first three years of secondary education. • A tuition fee of £ 18 per year for fourth and fifth years of secondary school education. • The payment of interest on loans raised by independent schools for student residental accommodation. • Extended subsidies for school equipment for library books, amplifiers, record-players, television sets, physical education equipment, duplicators and band instruments. • Purchase of scientific equipment through Government Stores Department. LABOR • Free school text books for all children attending State and independent primary schools. • An increase in the number of scholarships available at all schools, both State and independent. D.L.P. • Complete equality in education for all children in all schools. • Support for an enquiry into the whole educa tion structure.
Local pianist, Pauline O'Connor, who was awarded a scholarship to study under Italy's great pianist, Michelangeli, seven years ago, has returned to appear in the Festival of Perth. On Wednesday, Miss O'Connor was guest of honour at a dinner given by the Sacred Heart Old Girls' Association at a c ity hotel. She is pictured ( left ) with Mrs. Hilary O'Mahoney, vice-president of the a ssociation and Mrs. Jill Bignall of Floreat Park.
•
ROME: DOPE PAUL VI has granted permission for all priests of the Rome diocese to carry holy oils either on their persons, in their residences or in their ears. Archbishop Enrico Dante, Prefect of the Congre gation of Rites, said no decree has been issued. But he declared that bishop 11:lay apply to the congre s gaon for a similar faculty if they desire it.
FATHER PATRICK O'CONNOR, S.S.C., writes from SAIGON CATHOLICS HERE, LIKE MANY OTHER VIETN AMESE. ARE VERY UNEASY AS A RESULT OF THE MILITARY LEADERS' INTERVENTION BY WHICH PRIME MINISTER TRAN VAN HUONG AND HIS GOVERNMENT WERE OVERTHROWN.
CONFERENCE
Their disquiet arises to yield to illegal forms of mainly from two causes. pressure. First, former Prime MiniHE next conference Secondly, he was rester Huang is generally reof the clergy will moved speced as a man of integ- of a through the efforts be held in the Chapter minority Hall, Victoria Square,' rity who could have served power - hungry group of Buddh on Friday, February 19. the country well if given a who are widely believe ists d to The conference will fair chance. He is admired favour a neutralist deal commence at 10 a.m. for his courage in refusing with the communist -controlled "Liberation Front." Their leader. Thich Tr' Quang, is known to be bitterly anti-Catholic. Every Vietnamese Catholic this correspondent has questioned in Saigon — priests, laymen and laywomen — has expressed anxiety over the situation. VATICAN CITY: No Catholic authority LATVIAN bishop, whom Pope Paul VI has has made any official comnamed Apostolic Administrator of the Latvian ment so far. At the residence of Archbishop Paul Soviet Socialist Republic's two Sees, Riga and Nguyen Van Binh, the Liepaja, was consecrated secretly in Rome last year. N.C.W.C. News Service w as informed: "Since the He is Bishop Julian Vaivods, 69. His appointment situation is not yet entirely was not formally announced by the Vatican but was clear, the Archbishop prerevealed by the new 1965 Vatican Year Book. fers to make no comment His consecration took place privately last Novemat present. He .has recom ber and was carried out with the utmost discretion. mended to his priests and Other bishops attending the Ecumenical Council and people to remain calm." even men living in the same house with the conseFather P a u 1 crating bishops did not know of the ceremony at Hoang Quynh, president of that time. the Catholic Struggle He was consecrated by Paolo Cardinal Marella of Comm tee for Greater Solida itthe Roman Curia. Co-consecrators were Bishop f ormerly known as rity. the Boleslav Sloskans, exiled Apostolic Administrator of Catholic Struggle Comm itthe Minsk and Mohilev dioceses in the Soviet Union. tee, has issued a statem ent and Bishop Jazeps Rancans. exiled former Auxiliary that seems to imply criti Bishop of Riga. cism of the generals' coup. "The nation can live only
T
Allowed PRIESDEATH OF T'S MOTHER To Carry W A Holy oils ORD was received this week that the mother of Father Eugene McGrath. of ieGra Northa thhaM m, d rdsi.eMga Marga d ret McGrath, land on February 5. She had survived her late husband by 29 years. Six of the late Mrs. McGrath's ten children are in Religion. As well as Father McGrath, there are two others in this State. They are Mother M. Angela, of Presentation. Convent, Cloverdale, and Mother Pius, of Presentation Convent, Collie. Solemn Requiem Mass will be celebrated in St. Joseph's Church, Northam, on Monday. February 15. at 10.30 a.m. R.I.P.
CATHOLIC VIETNAMESE UNEASY AFTER COUP
Appointment Kept Secret
when its authority and order are respected.- the statement, which made no direct reference. to the coup said. "Government. army and people should ker.0 to their proper spheres. "In the present circumstances any action against authority and national order cannot benefit the country and can only serve the communists' aims. -People may lose confidence and live in uncertainty and in fear of living t hrough dark days without public order, as in last August. -This committee disapproves of all actions harmful to the national erder, actions which could lead to a state of government breakdown as before." The statement ended by calling on all Catholic citizens to remain calm, preserve unity and readiness to meet the critical situation. Meanwhile preparations are being made to form a 20 -man advisory council to include members of each of the four religious bodies as well as military officers and others. The Catholic members wil) be chosen by governmental decisio n.