BISHOP LENIHAN.
RECEPTION AT AUCKLAND. (Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Feb. 23. Bishop Lenilian. who lias just returned from a twelve months’ tour of the world, was presented last night with various addresses and a cheque for £302, the gift of the priests and people, the latter including many members of other denominations. The bishop, in his reply, noted with satisfaction that during his absence the people had made a step forward in the direction of promoting his cherished idea, namely the raising of sufficient money to enable them to make all their • Catholic schools free to the children. He would have groat p'oasuro in donating-part, if not all. of the cheque they had that night given him, .as the nucleus towards the creation of a fund for the free education of the • children.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2434, 24 February 1909, Page 5
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132BISHOP LENIHAN. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2434, 24 February 1909, Page 5
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