eic,4;"*Av
4 ,Assee .4,1/
_
.
e
,e,
efir //fer_Ar, es?)
PY7,
Vce-Atle,
ZeA,/zr
A ocial Centre
Price: 6d.
Is Opened For Poles by Bishop
Thcl?ecot No. 2,579
On Dec. 21, a Polish Social Centre in Brisbane street was opened by His Lordship the Most Rev. L. J. Goody, in the presence of between 200 and 300 Polish New Australians.
forth,).r Pe Wednesday, Dec. 24, 1952.
(Registered at the G.P.O.. Perth' transmission by post as aNewspaper
The V. Rev F. E. Hope, their wealth of culture to Adm., the Rev. J. Depiazzi the Australian people. lacting-director of Catholic A selected choir sang the PRAISING WORK OF PRIEST IN BUILD ING BEAUTIFUL MUNDARING SCHOOL Migration), the Rev. J. Gai- "0 Salutaris Hostia" and
His Grace Says Schools Will be Costing £227,000 On practically every Sunday in the next two months a school would be opened in the Archdiocese, announced His Grace the Archbishop, after he had blessed and declared open the new school of the Sacred Heart at Mundaring on Dec. 21.
kowski, the Rev. B. Binkow- "Silent Night" in Polish. ski, and the Rev. F. Dillon The harmonisation was exattended. The Rev. W. cellent. The centre consists of a Dzieciol was unavoidably absent in the country on converted shop which has been renovated by volunMission work. It consists of His Lordship spoke on the teer labour. a large room for meetings history and culture of the and a smaller room for Polish people, and hoped a cafeteria. Refreshments that from their centre the were served at the concluPolish people would give of sion of the ceremony.
NUMEROUS CLERGY WITNESSED THE BLESSING
The Archbishop, who was he had found it difficult to "a new school will be openassisted in the ceremony by distinguish Father Linnane ed in the Archdiocese. Some the Rt. Rev. Mgr. J. Raf- from the other workmen. are completed and others nearing oompletion. ferty, Adm., and the Rev, J. He had seen every stone set are Hogan, was introduced by in its place, every stick of They are mostly primary every tile placed schools, timber and and they have cost parish the Rev. T. Linnane, us £125,000. Plans which in position. priest. His Grace said it was a The Archbishop said he are being prepared for great day for Mundaring was delighted to have the school buildings which will and its surrounding dis_ opportunity publicly to ex- open by February, 1954, will total an estimated cost tricts, particularly for the parish priest of Mundaring. press,....k is congraulations, of another £102,000. gratitude to Father Linnane saw, that thanks and day, the realisation of a Father Linnane, and those Looking for Justice great ambition and the corn- associated with him, for Catholics, continued the were not only bletion of a very noble pro- their extraordinary vision, Archbishop, necessary ject, dear to his heart. They industry, and unselfishness. providing very school accommodation in a to nearer had come to congratulate They had worked If the State which was very short him and his people on their a 60 -hour week. of it, but they were doing the building had been acquired . work, to join them inhearts at a very reasonable price, their part as a body to stem joy that tilled their on the opening of a very it was due in greatest mea- the tide of unemployment in sure to the industry and in- their midst. beautiful new school. This, they undertook for a Father Linnane terest of the parish priest. When principle, for education dicame to the parish a few vorced from religion was years ago, he saw the abso- Amazing Feat lute necessity of having a It was a very beautiful not education in the true They contributed school for the children of building continued the Arch sense. his parishioners. There had bishop. He had not seen one -fifth of the cost of AMONG THOSE WHO WITNESSED `he sz-heol blessing at been many difficulties over anything more magnificent building and maintaining the permit, and His Grace than the three classrooms, State schools. thus enduring Mundaring were 18 priests, 23 Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparioffered publicly his deep the teachers' room, the ver- a double burden. tion, and students from St. Charles' seminary. gratitude to the Member for andah 82 x 10, and the saniHe hoped the day was not the district, Mr. R. Owen, tary block. It was mod- jar distant when the lead and were doing an excellent whether that achievement education for the good of for his extreme helpfulness ern in its ventilation and given by Tasmania could be equalled, let alone the State, Australia, and the would job for the whole State. He lighting; it was dignified, in getting the permit. be taken up by other The Archbishop congratu- bettered, in any part of the world. was a man of vision and dis- solid and serviceable. It States, and the injustice so world. Their achievement In a few brief words, lated the people of Mundar- was due to the leadership of Father Linnane thanked all cernment, who saw what was an extraordinary acothers could not, or would hievement to have built it long and patiently borne by ing. He had read recently Father Linnane, and they who had co-operated in the Catholics would be reschool for £5,500. not. see-that the Had it cost They were not with extraordinary inter- should continue to stand building of the school, eswould be an ornament to £8,500 or £9,500, it would dressed. asking or sub- est a balance sheet which shoulder to shoulder behind pecially two non-Catholic for charity the town and an acquisition still have been a reasonable friends, Messrs. C. Hilton sidies, but for justice. They conveyed in cold facts and him. to the whole district. price. The school, continued His and A. Selkirk. were prepared to ask it not figures that a Catholic popuRare Commodity `On practically every Sun- only for themselves but for lation of 250 had contribut- Grace, belonged not to him, which ed by direct giving the sum nor to the parish priest, but Father Linnane had over- day in the next two all denominations He doubted to the people, and it would New Convent Is come all the difficulties most months," stated His Grace. conducted their own schools of £2.500. be used by them, their chilsatisfactorily, continued His dren, and their children's Grace. The question was for generations to First in Country not merely one of building a MAGNIFICENT EFFORT OF PARISHIONERS PRAISED children come. His Grace wished school which would be paid When His Grace the all a happy Christmas and a for in God's good time. The New Year replete with Archbishop blessed a condifficulty was to obtain a vent, for the Hungarian SisGod's choicest blessings. community of nuns, for ters, in Heytesbury road, nuns were a commodity not Subiaco, on Dee. 24, and ofPraise for Mason to be bought with money. In conclusion, he express- fered the first Mass there, it Father Linnane had aped gratitude to Mr. J. Scat- was an historic occasion. proached the Mother Reena. the stonemason. He For on Christmas eve, 357 gional of the Sisters St. was more than delighted years ago, the Sisters had Joseph of the Apparition with his magnificent stone opened the first convent and asked for her help. work, which was worthy of founded in France. The With characteristic genethe unrivalled art of the Mass this year on Christmas rosity the nuns stepped into Italian the breach. The house next stonemasons. It eve marked their foundadoor had been acquirwas a credit to him and his tion in the Australian Coned and the nuns would country. His Grace also tinent, move into residence before thanked Mr. Peter Bertola, the beginning of the school who had been so closely as- Moora Kiddies' Ball sociated with the building. year in February. A children's fancy dress His Grace thanked those The V. Rev. Mgr. T. Leni- ball was held in the Moora wonderful women for cornhan, of Northam, then made Town hall on Oct. 28 and ing to their assistance and the appeal, the excellent re- was attended by about 250 tor bringing with them the sponse to which will be children and a large crowd splendid traditions they had published later in these col- of adults. established in their other umns. The judges Mesdames schools. Mr. R. Owen, M.L.A., also Myles and Maher, and Dr. To provide the school, also spoke, congratulating G. Myles-had a difficult Father Linnane had set an Father Linnane for his hard task in choosing prize -getextraordinary example. He physical work The school ters from a varied and rewent down to the quarry would serve a useful pur- markable range of costumes. and worked as a labourer pose for the people from Prizes were distributed loading the stone. He had Darlington to Chidlow, he by the V. Rev, Dean Camacted as assistant to the AFTER PAYING HIGH TRIBUTE to Father Linnane and said. It would be an in- eron. A tasteful supper, stone -masons and carpenspiration to parents and prepared by the ladies of ters. On several visits he his people, the Archbishop stated that the Catholic school -building 'children to give of their the parish, was enjoyed by had made, said His Grace, plan, to cost £227,000, would help stem unemployment. !best and to complete their children and adults alike. ,
-
CALL, 'PHONE or WRITE
OLICY
Australasian Catholic Assurance Co. Ltd., (Incorporated In
New South Wales) Warwick House, St. George's Terrace, Perth - 'Phone 134815