HIS GRACE BLESSES £9,000 EXTENSIONS AT SHENTON PARK, ANNOUNCES
Plan to Build 27 Schools During Coming Year, to Cost £195,000
growing generation by genSpeaking to a large crowd, after the blessing of the extensions to eration." the His Grace 29, on March Park If our churches are Shenton at presbytery and school crowded to-day, Sunday Archbishop announced that it was planned to build within the after Sunday; if their tern, church in Shenton coming year 27 schools, providing 82 classrooms, at a cost of porary Park (with a population of £195,000. 1,500 Catholics) was filled His Grace expressed plea- sembly hall for the children. to build. within the coming - three times each Sunday; school or 27 schools conyear, delighted, He was to invited being sure at they were indebted for that
Those buildings bless the extensions to the tinued the Archbishop, that churches. happy position to the Cathoschool and presbytery. Fif- it was possible at long last would provide 80 additional lic school system; and they cost and would addiclassrooms, the necessary to effect he said, he ago, years teen were indebted to those was there to bless the first tions to the presbytery. For in the region of £195,000. men and women, That was a big burden to wonderful extensions-the three class- the past ten years, Dr. Colof the Religious members the people to bear, but rooms-which had proved a lins had been anxious to ask a principle at Orders, without whose selftremendous boon in the in- provide extra accommoda- there was where there was sacrifice and zeal that school and war stake, of the because tion but, tervening years. And now system would be impossible those new classrooms would and post-war difficulties, it a principle at stake, our peo- and impracticable, to do ple had never been found impossible had been acquisidefinite very be a conHis Grace paid tribute le "Death and life have contended in that They anything before the present wanting, and with God's the Sisters of Mercy, tion to the parish. who help they never would be. had been staffing flict stupendous: the Prince of Life, who would release the old school- time. school to the pres- "Your conviction," continu- since 1912. For the The additions be could it so that church 25 years, died, deathless reigneth." serviceable, ed His Grace, is that edu- he said, they went used exclusively for church bytery were out by purposes, and would obvi- comfortable, and dignified, cation without religion is tram, morning after mornYour ate the difficulty and incon- and would provide ample not true education. ing, until, in 1937, they acvenience of having church accommodation for the three conviction is that the cruci- quired the convent in Nicand school in the same priests of the parish. And fix should occupy a promin- holson road. Shenton Park the additions to the school ent place in the classroom owed those Sisters a very building. great debt of gratitude. His Grace congratulated Dr. Collins and in congratulating him, thanked him and proportionately were students Catholic his assistant priests for their represented when degrees were conferred at The people apprework. ciated the zeal and selfless,the graduation ceremony at the University ness of their priests, and on March 27. they would show their apThe following successful- Thomas Nicholls and James preciation by co-operating ly completed the degree in Hamilton O'Donnell (aeq.) with them in the spiritual Prizes in the Faculty of *e various faculties:and temporal administraBachelor of Arts: Ann Engineering: tion, so that God's Kingdom G. M. Nunn Prize in SurBeryl Margaret Barbat, in Shenton Park would prosII.: Berveying-Surveying Condon, Francis Therese per and flourish year by ,Meredyth Jeanne Dunne, nard Hendrik Lochtenberg. year. Niel Thomas Francis FerHis Grace thanked all non, Maurice Hinton Foley, Three Parishes Add who had helped in the work eric Robert Kelly, Kathleen of extending the school and Mary Lalor, Joan Mary To College Total presbytery. He thanked all The Catholic University Francis McCarter, Peter who had contributed and College Committee wish to McCrann. would contribute towards Rita acknowledge with thanks Bachelor of Laws: the cost of those very essent h e following additional Bernadette Murphy. tial extensions. Special Presentation, the amounts. (Continued, P. 4.) Degree of Bachelor of Laws COTTESLOE: £560, the proceeds of a having previously been conby His Grace tells Shenton Park parishioners of ferred in absentia: Desmond house party arranged Mr. and Mrs. W. Mahoney. building programme. Charles Heenan. Brothers to Care £999/12/-. to date: Total Bachelor of Education: Ellen Prendiville (in ah. CLAREMONT: Doctor Collins had had a would measure up to mod- and in the school to which 25 guineas, Mr. J. Dunphy; sentia). Mrs. Carlisle; very big decision to make- ern educational authorities. you send your children, and For Nerve Cases Certificate: 21 guineas, Teachers' Doctor Collins had only a you have the courage of Mrs. McCrossan. whether to build a church guinea; A property of about 27 Boucher. ' Elaine Margaret £10 10s.: Mr. D. J. Dav- or to build extensions. To limited area of land avail- your convictions, notwithacres fronting Nepean-highBachelor of Science: Ber- idson. build a church would cost able for those extensions, standing that it entails much way, Cheltenham, Victoria nice Mary Cullity, Mark two -and -a-half but he had succeeded ad- cost and sacrifice on your was brought at auction releast £1,010 2s. at Steven Total to date: Hay dock, Gerald times the cost of the exten- mirably in utilising to the part. PARK: cently by the Catholic Laurence, Leslie Henry Lit- BEDFORD Church Trust Corporation. £20: Mrs. T. E. Symons. sions, and that would be a best possible advantage the And it is because of those tle, Rose McAleer, Peter Total in Church that the sacrifices available. space to imlimited burden very heavy Purchase price was £39,500. to date: £88/5/-. Grant Murphy, Gerard At the present time, stat- Australia is so strong and conThe establishment, pose bn the people. O'Mahony (in absentia), vira strength, were virile, with they sisting of main block, His Grace said he was ed His Grace, ' Anthony Parentich, Judith Ladies Plan Bright influence school, laundry and three ility and spiritual plans or preparing building, confident Dr. Collins had Maude Taylor, Kazimiera villas, will be conducted by Night of Boat Race made a wise decision, beJola Liliana Thieberg. the Hospitaller Brothers of ladies enthusiastic An cause the temporary church Leslie Henry Little, alSt. John of God as a trainthough a non-Catholic, was committee is working in would serve its purpose ad- Two Sisters Make Final Religious ing centre for retarded boys. the Old with mirably for some years to educated at C.13.C., Perth. conjunction association, Until recently the property their come, until such time as the He secured nine distinctions Aquinians' was the Methodist Peace to present debt had been liquibeing objective prime John of Convent in his course. Memorial Home for Childthe Boat Race night dated and a church fund es- Profession at Bachelor of Dental Sci- make Cottesloe Civic centre on tablished, so that they could the Provincial ren. convent chapel of In the ence: Thomas George Good- at The Brothers of St. John April 18 an outstanding then build a proper temple all. John of God, Subi- of God were founded In success. glory of God in the House of the Sisters of St. the to Spain in 1537, and have Honours Graduate in SciThe ladies met this week corner site reserved for it; a aco, on March 21, Sister M. Rosalie made branches throughout Euence: Mark Haydock. at Cyril Gene's home in building that would be wor(168 hospitals), and in Prizes in the Faculty of West Perth; among those Religious profession, and Sister M rope thy of the cite, worthy of its her final Ireland, America, Arts: present were Mesdames holy purpose, and worthy of Regina made her temporary Religious pro- England, Africa, Palestine, Japan and Lady Hackett Moulden Denis Cullity, Neil Kennedy, ,Prize in Latin: Judith Ann Peter Kennedy, Colin Mc- the faith and generosity of fession before the Rt. Rev. Mgr. E. Kennedy, Indo-China. the people. They came to Australia Sadler. Kittrick, Phon Scott, Aubrey in 1948 and have two houses Jane and Annie Nisbet Burt, Arch Dobson, and And when that time came, V.G. the throughout assisted (Rowley) Sister Rosalie in the archdiocese of Sydney, Memorial Prize in French: Reg Hopkins. as inevitably it would in by the Rev. M. one a training centre for Kathleen Mary Lalor. Everyone is invited to God's good time, then the is a native of Swinford, Co. ceremony V. Rev. The boys at Lake Fitzgerald. retarded Mayo, Ireland, while Sister Prizes in the Faculty of meet at the Civic centre on church Regina (Betts) hails from Page, C.Ss.R., preached the Macquarie, and the other a Science:' Boat Race night as a most present temporary occasional sermon on the hospital at Richmond Lady James Prizes in Sci- enjoyable get-together is would admirably suit as a Goulburn, N.S.W. Monsignor Kennedy was significance of the function. (N.S.W.) Chemistry: Trevor guaranteed. parish hall and as an as )(ince:
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