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No. 3577. PERTH, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1972.
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Optimistic note on aid for schools OPTIMISM about the future of aid for Catholic schools was the tone of the recent meeting of the Federal Catholic Schools Committee in Sydney. This was the summary of Fr. J. Nestor. Fr. Nestor and Mr. W. Mahoney were the State's representatives at the meeting. - The committee body meets twice a year, and it is the official body that speaks on this issue on behalf of the Bishops of Australia. At the conclusion of each of these meetings, official representation is made to the Cabinet about recommendations approved by the conference. The general feeling of portion of the costs of ate recommendations is optimism is that the government schools from the opinion that Cathovarious promises of the year to year. lic teacher training colparties political will Furthermore, a Catho- leges should receive materialise in the future lic committee has to equal treatment along and there is every sign look at other specialised with other similar instithat the question wheth- needs that are occurring tutions. er there should be State in Education. These may Generally, the discusaid or not is ceasing to be environmental factors sions of the committee be a political issue. such as poor suburban In the ,course of its areas, physical needs were held against a backproceedings, the com- such as remedial and ground of concern that mittee dealt with capital other specialised areas, expansion of the Cathoexpansion, maintenance and associated mental lic system must be encosts of present schools needs such as those of couraged. Alternatively, and teacher training. it is retarded and similarly faced with stagnation. Capital finance is handicapped children. needed especially for the Other concern is equally establishing TEACHER TRAINING for the uplifting of the IS THIS a familiar part af Clontarf you rememb of new er? If you visit Boys' Town this schools in new areas as in present The third important standards year for its mammoth fair you will be s-urpriscd to se 2 it's no longer there. well as upgrading the area of the committee's schools. obsolescence of existing meeting was the question The most important Up to 300 migrant gan to give trouble and I t has been a historic New development will schools. of teacher training. The concern is for the people piece of the Clontarf boys at a time were being it was decided that it be in keeping with new There is a need to Senate standing com- actually involved, partic- scene. Part of it was the cared for by Clontarf should be demolished educational needs.. assure the young Catho- mittee on education, ularly the parent who is old presbytery, later ex- in those days, and this and rebuilt. Grants are available for lic parent in a new area science, and the arts has suffering under t h e tended with a second wing was bursting under Fittingly, the last mig- new library and science that Catholic education presented its major re- mounting cost of educa- s torey in the early the pressure. rant boy of this long facilities and four new can be provided within port to the Common- tion. The 1940's for the most sigpressure must Clontarf work left this classrooms are also plantheir financial reach. It wealth Government on ned. Without forthcoming nificant part of its his- have been too great be- year. is characteristic of these the role of the Commoncause the structure begovernment assistance tory. areas that there is often wealth in teacher These of course are Buried in the rubble train- there is a parallel bur a heavy initial debt on ing. are the famous sounds of some of the needs of den on the religious who the parish. Unless there the Ciontarf band that Clontarf, but its real The Catholic commit- have carried the system is government help, used to practice there. needs lie in the Christian Catholic education is de- tee discussed this report so far. Many of the comAlso part of it was the care it is seeking to proand resolved to write munities are faced with finitely placed beyond MRS. MARIAN McCUDDEN, of Ballybay, Co. fiat of the famous Joey ide for youth. immediately to the Fed- the reality that they them. Monaghan, Eire, passed away last Thursday. In J ac kso n, outstanding It was the intention of eral government suppor- alone can no longer carry recent weeks her health had been declining as member of the Clontarf THE CLONTARF STORY ting the implemen tation the Catholic system and this federal committee to family for years. —PAGE 10 the result of of an accident. the report's sugges- this must be a concern put this matter before the government and to tions. of the whole Catholic Mrs. McCudden was ia's Church, Floreat, on Included in these Sen- community as well. expect a favourable rethe widow of the late Monday night, a full cognition of the prob Peter McCudden, prom- congregation assisted at lem by the governme inent in business in a Mass offered by Fr. nt. Fr. Nestor commented Ballybay and in the Peter McCudden, conthat, with the average Knights of St. Columbus. celebrating with Frs. Proportion of religious Mrs. McCudden during O'Sullivan, McCrann, to lay teachers increasing her lifetime had taken a Corcoran and Phelan. it was the policy of the keen interest in the arts Bishop Quinn attended W.A. Catholic Education especially music and had the ceremony and adCommission to advance imparted this love to her dressed the congregation the concept of the all lay OMAHA, Neb. (NC).— much as it spends to children, Father Peter, on the blessing of mothCatholic school. Maura, Ann and Bren- erhood that is shared Boys Town, the home for take care of its boys." Fr. Nestor's personal dan. with the world through boys founded by the legopinion is that, if the endary Boys Town director, The funeral took place the children she gives to Father Flanagan, USUALLY COME BACK FOR money were available, has a problem. It has Msgr. Nicholas H. Weg- in Ballybay. In St. Cecil- it. s}lch a school could pos- more ANOTHER . . . AND ANOTHER money than it ner, took issue with the ibly be established with- knows what to do with. way the Sun papers prein two AND ANOTHER sented the financial picyears. The situation of ac- ture. "Someone is jealSuch a school would reflect the clearer con- cumulating funds, at the ous of Boys Town's sucrate of about $25 million cess," he said, "and cept of the role of laity a year, in the was reported by they're trying to get back Church today. the Sun Newspapers of at us by saying each kid SAN DIEGO (NC). — the only way the NorthOmaha in a copyrighted is worth thousands of MAINTENANCE "The struggle against op- ern Ireland problem story. dollars ." In the eyes of the pression in Northern Ire- can be solved is for "the Federal committee In defending the insti- land is the struggle British to get out, just , money DISPLEASED needed for the maintentution's growing assets, against oppression in as the US must get out Boys Town officials the ance of the present 73-year-old Msgr. the United States," said of Indo China." sys- did not tem. is equally dispute the basic Wegner said: importan "This is a Father James Groppi, a t as the facts that appeared in business. No "The US is guilty of question of capibusiness Milwaukie priest long tal expansion the Sun story but they ever stops trying to save involved in the civil genocidal acts of war needs. said they did not like the It is not against the Vietnamese for unknown contingen- rights movement. related mere- tone of the story istelf. 1Y to the people, just as Great cies." "oppresse urged He d inflating value of money everywhere" to Britain has been guilty people According but to the is Sun, tied rather to the spiralling Boys Town as a taxjoin in the fight against of genocidal acts against PROGRAMMES THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN costs of injustices and for human the Irish," he claimed. relative education itself exempt religious instituCARS He said there were liberty. to new demands tion has accumulated a Father Groppi observand Father Groppi spoke in ed that the struggle in techniques. wealth in stocks, bonds plans to open up proAUTHORISED GENERAL MOTORS grammes for retarded an "Ireland Now" pro- Ireland is a fight over 'or the present, the and other assets estimat- children, something preHOLDEN DEALER c gramme to raise funds human rights, good housommittee would seek ed at $209 million. viously not done by Boys for wives and children ing, equal opportunities seine built in growth fac1308 Albany Hwy. Boys Town, the Sun Town which gained its of men imprisoned in and the "chance tor that of all could contain c ontended, has the built "a fame by taking care of Northern Ireland. human beings to advance threat of Cannington This factor rising costs. money machine bringing homeless, but physically Father Groppi, recently as far as their ability might be ex- in $25 million a year. PHONE: 68 1826 PHONE: 68 1826 and mentally healthy returned from a visit to lets them—the same fight pressed as a certain pro- more than five times as boys. Ireland, asserted that as in America."
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