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A new convent, dedicated to Our Lady
of Fatima, will be blessed and opened for the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions by His Grace the Archbishop at Palmyra on Nov. 16 at 3.30 p.m.
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The convent, an attractive first Mass was offered there structure. built 12 years ago, on Sept. 19. The Sisters extend a corwas formerly the presbyterdy in Hammad street. In dial invitation to the CathoRe gisteurtil agytpohestGiiPs.0..i.4,Pwesrtpah,pefr^r Perth, Thursday, November 6, 1952 lic public to attend the cerebrick and tile, it has been No. 2,574 trr mony on Nov. 16. considerably extended. additions include The sleeping quarters, two sac- Therries' Election Members of the Therry risties, a music room, and corridor. The 12 -room con- society are reminded that a nominations for elections of vent will accommodate community of six Sisters, executive officers of the sochildren ciety will close next Mon160 who have The elecunder their charge in the day, Nov. 10. tions will be held on Nov. school. The Sisters formerly trav- 17. to Members are asked elled each day to Palmyra from their Tuckfield street make a special effort to at MonFather Dunlea is on his convent., East Fremantle. tent the meeting next for a On a health visit here from Engadine, N.S.W., is the Rev. T. second visit to this State. In They took up residence in day, as arrangements Nov. on held to be after the picnic new convent the he was the guest of the Dunlea, famed throughout the world as the founder of the Austra- 1922 late Archbishop Clune. On August vacation, and the 16 will be discussed. The guest of His Grace the Archbishop, Father Friday last he was received lian Boys' town. the V. Rev. P. Arza, Dunlea's other main interests embrace Alcoholics Anonymous and by O.S.B. prior of the Benedicthe welfare of our coloured race. tine abbey, New Norcia, frequent free days. Each where he addressed the asIn an interview, Father boys stirred the imagination and week the boys are allowed sembled community on Dunlea described how he of the Australian public, the city on their own. youth work and native misinto people and radio and came to undertake the care press of under -privileged boys. A on all sides took up the de- Each has a bank account, sions. Built by the W.A. Speedcar Drivers' asand through elementary Father Dunlea addressed woman dying in a hospital fence of the humanitarian speech- the public meeting on na- sociation, a new speed -car track at Clontarf begged him to look after work. The coast -to -coast civics, is taught and how to vote in tive welfare in the Town her son, the youngest of five publicity was such, said making proportional represen- hall last night. He hopes to Boys' town will be officially opened at 2.30 children who would have no Father Dunlea, that there the system. Of f i c i a l s visit all centres for undertation a or a language hardly was for them. one to care Sunday, Nov. 16. Racing will be from the Electoral Office privileged youth, of all de- p.m. on His second charge was a newspaper of didany notimporSunday fortnight at 2.30 p.m., at polls. the every preside held give which tance nominations, in W.A. and to lad who had run away from In 1947 Father Dunlea vi- take in the native missions. romantic story. and Boys' town will receive half of proceeds. a Children's Home. The space to that and the United States sited A spokesman for the W.A. third boy was roaming the Offer From a Jew Father Dunlea said he had The track, whicn Is apspent some months with streets. He had absconded While under canvas men Monsignor Flanagan before not yet met Brother Keaney, proximately 280 yards to Speedcar Drivers' association had learphe was very pleased said schools, 43 limestone from and parts visited his death. He was received but hoped to do so shortly. the lap, has a ed nothing and was consi- of all arts sealed w it h with the result. His assowas a by President Truman and In conversation with Presi- foundation them Among them. grateful to was dered uneducable. a granite dust ciation George Nathan, a congratulated on his great dent Truman he had spoken gravel and With the increase in Jew, of Brother Keaney's great surface. It will be watered Boys' Town for the assistHe was The President told work. bookmaker. Sydney numbers Father Dunle a very distressed to see a him that Mgr. Flanagan had work, in this State. regularly to eliminate dust. ance of the lads and the use of equipment. Mr. R. O'Neil could no longer accommo- priest, with so many boys, stolen all the laurels for of White Rock quarries had date them on the presbytery sleeping on the ground. He social work in America. liberally donated and loaned verandah. They moved to a offered help in the building equipment and material. ramshackle garage but the Soul Archbishop at Crowded Presides real town. The story Searing The drivers who will race were flooded out. Then, into of a since stresses Dunlea Father round been told has Having shack. every Friday night at Claan abandoned of the Jew and that the word "delinquent" Speedway will be remont received so many set -backs the world who Mission Midland of Excellent Close Town. built a town is never used at Boys' the star entertainers, assisand disappointments, said the priest They would like to substiMission, preached by members of the successful ted very Father Dunlea, but knowing of unwanted boys. A tute the word "under -privithrilsomething of the history of leged", A brand seered the throughout the Midland Junction parish by Lambretta club. Fast, expecthe purchase Following they could be racing ling Providence, Divine land the hide of cattle, he said, but the Rev. P. Murphy, O.F.M., concluded on ted. Refreshments will be cast their bread upon the and donation of built by it seared the soul of a waters and called upon God first dormitory was owned a child. Nov. 2, when His Grace the Archbishop gave available on the grounds. June Russell, who for assistance. Father Dunlea stated he beauty salon. She brought Blessed Sacra- Boy:' Town Citizens the with absolutely agreed My Bank, Providence workmen to erect the struc- late Mgr. Flanagan's slogan Pontifical Benediction of the To Present Concert He put down 10/- deposit ture at week-ends. The that there is no such thing ment in St. Brigid's church. Clontarf Boys' Town inThe Missions in Midland son. O.F.M.. the Rev. Father 'on one of the many empty building of schools followed as a bad boy. It was a divine cottages, because the "dep- and the de la Salle Brothers truth, implanted in the had been preached over a Columba, O.F.M., and the vites their benefactors, field over. took fortnight at Pearce, Bin- Rev. Father Berard, O.F.M. day workers, and all friends ression" died very hard in The trend at Boys' Town hearts of mothers and re- doon, Wexcombe, His to their bright annual enterAfter Benediction, Herne Sutherland (16 miles south in 1,000 letters in a echoed of Sydney on Prince's High- soon turned from ordinary his possession. Hill, and Bellevue. In Mid- Grace passed through the tainment, to be held on Frito trades. technical schooling 1939, 14, in the spacious way) on September I, Of the work for alco- land proper a week's Mis- church to meet the large day, Nov. attractive auditorand moved in with the three Among these is a meat holics, sion was given. congregation after the suc- open-air said Dunlea Father master school, staffed by boys. They possessed nothium at Clontarf. St. Brigid's church was cessful Mission. had launched an experiing in the world. A man members of the Common- he Invitations have been sent in Sydney in 1944 with crowded each night, with and his wife from the un- wealth Meat industry and ment and should anyone inadin doorpeople standing the Minogue, a world-faScholarship Exam. employed camp came in to Allied Trades. The boys, Dr. have been omitted vertently despite the provision ways, Mr. psychiatrist, and supervise. Thus was found- clad in the regulation clothes mous a psy- of extra seating. A feature For C.B.C. Entrance by the secretary, kindly aced the first Boys' Town in of apprentices, have the Charles McKinnon, this note as a personal A examinacept scholarship was large Mission the of the at Darlinghurst. Australia and the second in chance of learning the latest chiatrist of young people. tion for entrance to the col- invitation. processing methods. This Reception home. He was attendance the world. Special buses leave the His Grace was assisted by lege will be held on SaturR. from the same body built Boys' Town then told by the Rev. A reporter work of the Rt. Rev. Mgr. J. J. Raf- day, Dec. 6. at 9.30 a.m., at old G.P.O.. St. George's ter"Sydney Morning Herald" an up-to-date hospital at a Murphy S.J. of the at 7, 7.10, 7.20, and between £20,000-- A.A. in America and it had ferty, Adm., the Rev. J. the college, St. George's ter- race. asked Father Dunlea what cost 7.30 p.m. Hogan, the V. Rev. T. Pear- race. were his financial prospects. £30,000. It includes dental been launched in Sydney. "My credit," replied the services and chiropody, and priest, "is in the bank of is one of the show places of Divine Providence and in N.S.W. DELEGATES TO THE YOUNG CHRISTIAN WORKERS STATE CONFERENCE. the hearts of the Australian 1,000,000 Visitors people". Fifteen tourist buses from Once it appeared in the Tourist public press that Boys' the Government Town had begun, boys flock- bureau bring visitors daily ed to it from off the track to see the Town. In one and from broken homes, year, it is estimated, one some ran away from insti- million visitors inspect Boys' tutions. Soon it was discov- Town. The Master Bakers and ered by the metropolitan H ea It h authorities that Pastrycooks of NSW built a bakery there. Their memmore Father Dunlea had 'boys than cubic feet and bers train the boys, subsiwork and prepare dise the an eviction order was isthe examinations. As a resued. sult of this training a great Historic March number of boys enter the With about 30 boys, led by meat and baking trades, two a military of the most lucrative in the a famous goat, hand and a police cycling country. Other trades taught thel squad, they marched through the streets of Suth- boys, who fluctuate in1 erland with flags reversed numbers between 100 and (sign of distress) while the 150, are wood -turning, oxytown youngstei, cheered welding and precision work. and mothers wept. "It was The government of Boys' a replica of one of the great Town is in the hands of a treks of history," said Father boy mayor and seven alDunlea, "as we marched dermen. The four suburbsto the scrub in National Dunlea, Forrest, Nathan and Park whe-e we lived in de la Salle-compete for of the Y.C.W. initiated some tents for six months." marks and the winner re- Young men from the metropolitan and country branches This movement of young ceives special concessions lively discussions at the annual conference. (See P. 3.)
Father Dunlea Tells How Boys Town Was Founded
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