16th National Convention., 1956

Agenda leaflet for the Convention in April 1956 at St. Edmund’s Christian Brothers’ College, Canberra; correspondence of B.A.S., Mrs. D. Jensen and W.E. Crowe (Assistant Secretary) with people invited to speak including Professor E.W. Titterton), again on the general theme of decentralization, letters of thanks to speakers, Bishops and helpers; convention arrangements; lists of those to receive the “special letter” (of invitation); News Digest and Leaders’ Bulletin, April 1956; Special Bulletin; list of group leaders; papers to whom publicity sent; list of priests present at luncheon given by Archbishop O’Brien; Letter from James Brophy, Forrest, A.C.T., 10 April 1956, advising of the Canberra University College authorities’ unwillingness to let their Hall be used for a lecture by BAS on 26 April as part of the Rural Conference and expressing his own personal views including an explanation why from the Church’s point of view it is desirable that the application for the hall be withdrawn; B.A.S.’s reply, 12 April 1956; Crowe’s subsequent correspondence concerning printing speakers’ texts; P.L. McCarthy, C.B.C., St. Edmund’s, 1 May 1956: “The impression made on your audience at the University Hall was tremendous”.