The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate, Monday 19
August 1929
ARCHBISHOP
KELLY
Visit
to Auburn
APPEAL
FOR FUNDS
In
the course of an appeal for funds to liquidate the debt on St. Mary's
Cathedral, Archbishop Kelly, who visited Auburn
Roman Catholic Church
last Sunday, said that he was anxious to see the debt wiped off by the time he
left on a visit to the Pope at the end of the Year.
The
bank overdraft, he said, was £30,000 which bore interest at 6½ per cent, and
there was also a loan of £24,000 at a lower interest from the Catholic Trust
Fund. Up till 1925 half at million had been spent on St. Mary's new building
and the authorities had kept well within their means. In order to complete the church
for the Congress, however, they had been obliged to borrow large sums of money.
Archbishop Kelly, referring to the local agitation for a new convent school,
said that he realised the necessity of another school, and promised them his
assistance.
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