No. 3677. PERTH. THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1974
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Iona's new library and boarding rooms Substantial library and boarding additions to the lona Presentation College, Mosman Park, were blessed last Sunday by Archbishop Goody and officially opened by the Premier, Sir Charles Court. On this boarding ac- money that would be reThe principal feature of the new structure is commodation the State quired to repair the builthe residential wing for Government is paying a ding and even then it 110 boarding students, 5 per cent interest sub- would not be a permanreplacing former crowd- sidy and it is anticipated ent structure suitable as ed accommodation. that this amount may in- a convent residence. In the new block, each crease. of the 110 girls has her The house dates from own room accommoda- F INANCE the 1890's when it was tion, attractively furnishThe library received a named Buckland House Commonwealth grant of by Dr. Jamieson, the first ed and fitted out. Special shower and $16,000 and it is expected owner. Later occupants, change room facilities that the Commonwealth the Le Fanu family, recan cater for 30 students Government eventually named it Chateau Perwill meet the full cost of serverance. In 1907 it was at a time. named Iona by Bishop In the same wing, a the library. Referring to the large Gibney and occupied by new dining room can contain the 110 boarders but capital outlay, the Moth- the Presentation Sisters. the adjoining kitchen fac- er-General, Mother Albe- ( • SEE ALSO P. 6, 7) ilities can cater for up to us, said that for the past 150 people, allowing for five years, parents, exthe Sisters' meals to be students and friends of ON INSIDE PAGES prepared in the same the college had been contributing to a fund which area. Calendar 4 On the ground floor ad- had provided S45,000. Mother Albeus said Classified jacent to the dining room Advertising 10 a large room looks on to that the next stage of the Iona programme Education File 2 an internal courtyard. would be the redevelop- Letters 11 MODERN ment of the primary News In Pars 5 • It's not a new hair style but simply five students at lona College trying out the new The library block is a school. At present the Sister Philomena audio equipment in the library blessed last Sunday by Archbishop Goody and opened by the separate building design- building in which more Earle 11 Premier, Sir Charles Court. ed to serve the needs of than 300 primary childSport 10, 12 500 secondary students, ren were being taught FROM LEFT: Wendy Jones, Jillian Downes, Debbie Ayres, Debbie Tills and Gemma Wool9 which is proposed to be was on a very confined Theatre torton. TV, Radio 9 the maximum enrolment site. of the secondary section The college authorities of the college. were looking for an alIts design follows the ternative site nearby. most modern library trends with isolated read- RESIDENCE ing areas and audio-readShe also spoke sorrowing equipment. fully of the condition of Beneath the library the present convent resiV ATICAN CITY (NC). — Pope Paul has warned that if the gap block, a large carpeted dence. Although looking Open space is set aside like one of W.A.'s stately between the rich and the under-developed nations is not closed, the as a study area for the old homes, it had deter- poor and powerless might be spurred to take aggressive action in order 110 boarders. iorated to a dangerous to gain what they believe to be their rights. The extensions have condition, she said. In a 1,400-word mes- justice and human solid- of the mass media by cost nearly $500,000, the Professional opinion residential section cost- was that there was no sage addressed to Kurt arity, and be the practical a limited segment (3,Waldheim, secretary applications ce. these society in search of ing $378,000. limit to the amount of general of the United principles." riches. Nations, Pope Paul took While granting "Likewise, one should that c..,enotice of the extraordin- veloping nations "Must not forget that a life-style ary session of the UN continue in their effortc.; based on ever greater General Assembly, which to promote the true wel- consumption has harmopened in New York on fare of their peoples," ful effects on nature ar..d April 9. the environment and the Pope also stress The special session was that "international jus finally on the moral fibre called to examine prob- tice demands equa:ly of man himself, especiallems of raw materials that the wealthy and ly the young," the Pope and development. privileged nations should said. . Pope Paul warned that match that effort by reThe Pope said that just and equitable relanone of the problems moving any obstacles of tions between all nations could be "solved by poli- economic or political could only be promoted domination." cies that serve only if all would agree within 12 MONTHS national self-interest." The Pope said that "a an international context What must be aimed new - order of develop- to take the necessary for, he said, was "the ment would promote measures for "revising general good of the peace and serve the certain policies heretohuman family as a genuine advantages of fore followed." whole." all" and appealed to deIf nations failed to do Sta ting. a general prin- veloped nations "to make that, he stated, "despair ciple that has been a greate'f efforts to forego will ensue on the part keynote of his social and their own immediate ad- of the poor and power( c.onomic teaching, Pope vantages, and to adopt less,* a. despair that will Paul said: a new life style that will spur them on to aggress"The Church stead- exclude both excessive ive search • for methods Minimum investment $100 fastly professes the be- consumption and those —other than intentional lief that all acceptable superfluous needs that co-Operation — to gain solutions must be based are often artificially en what they consider to be on international social gendered through the usr their economic rights." 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