Annual Gathering Held at Catholic Circle A total of $6,609.70 was expended during 1934 by the' Shanghai Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Catholic welfare organization, according to' the forty-eighth annual report. of the Society presented on Sunday at the Jannual general meeting. The meeting was held yesterday morning at the Shanghai Catholic Circle in Nanzing Road and was combined with the annual meeting of the Apostleship of Prayer. Bishop A. Haouisee, 51. resided and addressed the 300 per-Sons present on the work of the two organizations.
The St. Vincent de Paul report showed that 68 adults and $3 children (non-Chinese) were on the register of the Society at the end of the year $1,082.87 was used to purchase rice and $9,755 spent in weekly grants, $718 in monthly grants and $338.20 In occasional grants. At the begi ning of 1985 the Society had on hay $1,340 to meet an average monthly expense of $550. A Christmas fund of $242, was collected and applied to yule tide festivities for the poor held lurider the auspices of the Reverend Mothers of the Holy Family and the Reverend Brothers of Si. Francis Xavier's College.
'Among the activities of the Apostle ship of Prayer, special mention was made at the meeting of the choir Jand the catechism classes. 'The work' undertaken by the Reverend Mothers Jof the Holy Family in connection with the catechism classes and the brary, was highly commended. The deaths "of nine Associates of 1 organization were noted with regret.
'The affeers of the St. Vincent de Paul Society are Mr. H. C. Lubeck, president; Mr. B.A. da Cruz, vice: resident: Mr. D. M. Gutterres, hon. secretary' and Mr. F. X. SIN. Gut-torres, hon. treasurer. The officers of the Apostleship of Prayer are M: A. M. Diniz, president:
Wilson, assistant hon. secretary; Mr.
M. Gutterres, hon. treasurer: and Mr. F. A. Lopes, assistant "hon. treasurer. The Very Rev. John - A. Lennon, s., is spiritual director of both societies.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.