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No. 3291. PERTH, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1967.
(Registered at the G.P.O., Perth for transmission by post as a Newspaper.)
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Oath VIOLINCt FIRST IN AUSTRALIA IN MINING DISPUIT SAYS BISHOP INTERVENTION by the Catholic Church on the island of B ougainville prevented violence and bloodshed last year over land believed to contain mineral deposits, an American-born Catholic Bishop told a correspondent of the "South Pacific Post." The special correspondent has just returned to Port Moresby from Bougainville, where he reported on the situation from the Australian government and Catholic missionary standpoints. to say since all BOUGAINVILLE, Aus- principle, effective in nothing minerals belong to the
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The Redemptorist Fathers greeted on arrival at Wagga for seminar with local clergy, by Very Rev. Father tralian - governed Australia„ that all royalJ. McGrath, Adm., Rev. F. Carroll, Chancellor and Father W. Fulton. From left to right: Rev. Fathers T. south-west Pacific is- ties from mineral ex- government." Dunphy, J. McGrath, P. O'Donnell, K. O'Brien, H. O'Leary, W. Fulton ( obscured ), K. O'Shea, B. Johnland which was the ploration belong to the Bishop Lemay and the stone, L. McCarthy, L. Carbery, L. Middleton, J. Tobin, F. Carroll. scene of major battles government. Thus, own- missionaries supported in World War II, be- ers of land with mineral the people's stand. came another battle- deposits would receive The Bishop told the THIS "team" put Father Kevin O'Shea, diocese and Bunbury calling on the city for ground late in 1966 in a compensation only for Pacific Post" "South C.SS.R. diocese in a foura total renewal in for the first time dispute between its in, the use of their land that day seminar in May, Christ. a city in Australia in habitants, supported by during surveying and correspondent The regional misA prayer campaign Lemay, mining operations. This when violence over the Leo Bishop a state of "mission." sion is a new and in- gave three talks a imminent. day to Bishop Francis has already begun S.M., Vicar Apostolic of would amount to not issue seemedquickly to in tensified idea Commencing on the bringing the renewal Hensche and the 26 and readers are asked the Northern Solomon less than a dollar an "we acted by exto join their prayers last week in March. asked for the Vatican priests. Islands, and the Austra- acre during the search, avoid trouble these 13 Redempto- Council. to the others for the two dollars an acre dur- plaining to the people lian government. The regional misrist and 13 of the success of this initial ing occupancy, and com- over and over again Father O'Shea, who sion comylences on r egional mission clergy of the city of pensation for any dam- that they should use COPPER Wagga., New South will direct the clergy which could be a Sunday, -April 30. age to surface holdings. their power as citizens to have the law changWales, were prepared s eminar for the with the proclamatype for others elseConzinc Riotinto AusThe people of Bou- ed," but, he added, "at for their work by priests of Perth Archtion of the Bishop where. tralia, a mining com- gainville demanded at pany, has been pros- least a part of the royal- no time did we tell them pecting land believed to ties. Australian Terri- that they should break contain large copper de- tories Minister, during existing law." The Bishop said that posits. a visit to Bougainville, The Australian gov- refused to listen to na- the Church's only conernment has extended tive landowners on the cern was that "all men to its territories the ground that "they have should get their fair share of God's riches." He attributed the cause of the trouble to "a conflict between the white man's law and the laws of a primitive 'society." He disavowed any intention on the part of has followed is expected has been one of the The bill permits docthe Church to "take C ATHOLICS a n d to narrow the vote con- principal opponents of tors to terminate a pregsides," but declared that other opponents of siderably when it comes the bill in committee, ancy where birth would he acted to avoid up again for its final— said the conscience be a risk to the physical "blood shed involving the Abortion Bill third — reading. It is, clause for "a reasonable or mental health of the the paying HE Vicar Apostolic Government Australians and natives expected to c ompromise." mother or where there T of the Vicariate Apo- fare there. Where a who were caught in the now going through however, But commenting on is substantial risk that get through. stolic of Jesselton in Sa- shorter term was con- climate of colonial Parliament in Brithe bill generally, he the child would be menbah, Bishop James Buis, sidered, such as two thinking which domisaid: "There is a very tally or physically abCOMMISSION has been in Perth for years, the fare would nates too many white tain have won a real danger that London normal. Doctors will be Govthe by not be paid here." people the last week in search consolation conces- There have been de- may become the abor- allowed to take into acof teachers willing to ernment. mands for the whole bill tion capital of the sion. go to Sabah in Eastern Another task the HOPE t o be scrapped and for world." He pointed out count family and other Malaysia to help overan official commission that women from other s ocial circumstances Bishop had set himself A conscience clause to be set up to make a c The Bishop viewed come the shortage of ountries where aborwith was to arrange the government's pre- war inserted allowing thorough investigation tion is illegal could go when deciding whether teachers in secondary schools here sent boarding nurses and doctors, willingness to schools there. of abortion in Britain to Britain and have one they consider an aborThere are 25 secon- to supply accommoda- study the situation and others involved to opt before any reforms are legally. tion justified. tion and education to establish a liaison in the out of abortion opera- legalised and there is a dary schools and in 1968 picked from students moral or relitions on field as grounds for they could use as many chance the government, Sabah who would go on hope of ending the op- gious grounds. as ten teachers. now going through a train as teachers and position of a group of In the aided schools, to The concession was phase of unpopularity, sit y univer graduates islanders to the current inserted in the final may intervene. But the the salaries of the teachers were paid by the and then return to Sa- m ineral exploration round of the controver- chances are that the bill project. Government, which also bah. sial passage of the bill legalising abortion for The schools in Sabah "We are pleased to through its committee the first time in Britain paid up to 50 per cent are conducted by the see that the govern- stage before being re- will become law this of the building costs. Bishop Buis said that De La Salle Brothers, ment is now explaining turned to the House of year. t h e Commons for a final vote situation," he had done a survey of the Mill Hill Sisters and the Bishop said. "If they on whether it should It comes before the his schools and the ones the Mill Hill Fathers. House of Commons the increases which needed teachers THE principals of Syd- pay Bishop Buis said that had done this in the become the law of the again on June 2. archdiocesan schools agreed upon for 1967„ it and could supply ac- from the Vicariate they first place there would land to allow abortions The conscience clause have been instructed could not agree to pay commodation would be had vocatons to the Bro- have been no trouble." in cert ain circumaims to prevent abuses not to re-hire next year those to take effect in The Bishop has been stances. the ones which would thers and to the priestby incompetent or care- lay teachers who refuse 1968. receive preference from hood. There had been criticised in the PapuaSome of these circum- less doctors by stating to forego salary inThis is the latest dethose who applied to go five ordinations in the New Guinea assembly stances such as possible that in a civil or crimi- creases already arrang- velopment in a for as "a man hungry to Sabah as teachers. dispute years; four there past harm to the mental as He was already pleas- were ten students in the power who fears that well as the physical nal action the onus of ed with the principals. which began with the The directive came in introduction this year ed with the response seminary there and five big economic develop- health of the mother are proof of conscientious objection will rest on a letter from the arch- of a new system to pay ment will weaken the and had yet to go to in Penang. hold of his missionary still regarded by oppo- the person claiming it. diocesan director of the salaries of lay teaother States.. He realisnents, including Catho- This is unlikely to pre- education, for left Bishop Buis empire." Monsignor chers. ed that there was also a Some of his mission- lics, as providing a loop- sent much difficulty to John Slowey. The letter shortage of trained tea- Adelaide on Thursday. Twice earlier this Any enquiries, which aries who supported the hole for abortion for doctors and others who says that, although the year lay teachers in two chers here as well. can defend their objec- Catholic Building and schools left their classes will be dealt with first people in the dispute anyone on demand. overwon an tion on religious F inance Commission in protest against the The bill were representative accused by a of inciting FOUR YEARS here, can be made to rebellion by deliberate- whelming s u p porting grounds. which now pays the new system, which they Norman St. John- salaries of all lay tea- said had not given them The normal time for Box 999, The Record ly turning the people vote when first introan engagement would Newspaper, 450 Hay against the prospecting duced into Parliament, Stevas, Catholic Mem- chers in archdiocesan raises promised by the venture. but the controversy that ber of Parliament, who schools, has agreed to principals. be four years, with the Street, Perth.
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