Fr. Fahey’s File. N.C.R.M. [Fr. J. Fahey, S.J., I.S,O., Belloc House, Kew]. PART 1. , 1940-1966

“The Fight for the Land”; Program and Objectives of the N.C.R.M. by BAS, National Secretary. Reprinted by kind permission of the Australasian Catholic Record. Undated, but mentions the appointment of Bishop Henschke as Episcopal Chairman, “the virtual depopulation of many Catholic rural parishes since the outbreak of war” and citing instances of severe decline in the last six and four months, and figures for holdings for 1938-39.

“Main Street Twenty Years After”, Reader’s Digest, Dec. 1940.

Extract from Mabel Seeley’s The Whispering Cup, 1941.

N.C.R.M. Women’s Section: Fire on the Earth; official organ of the Section, Dec. 1944, and First Programme, “to be followed by Groups of the [Section] during their first year of activity”. Undated, but (p.4), refers to publications including The Earth Our Mother, published 1945.

“How the Good Earth Fosters Good Will”, by J.L. Block, Coronet, Apr. 1946.

“The Boerenbond Jubilee”, Australian Catholic Digest, Sept. 1950.

Programme and Agenda for the 12th Annual Convention May 1952, Albury.

“The Chaplain in the Rural Movement”, by Rev. Fr. Linane (talk to a meeting of priests from the Murray Valley, at “La Verna”, Melbourne towards the end of 1950), pp.from Quarterly for Chaplains, undated, and includes part of “A Tribute to Frank Maher”, etc.

“The Land available for Settlement in Australia”, cyclostyled, 1952.

Introductory Programme for District Committees, Murray and Murrumbidgee Valleys. [1951? See District Committees] Mentions (p.9) the harnessing of the head-waters of the Snowy River, initiated in recent months. Newscuttings from Catholic Weekly, 15 April 1954.

Programme for Retreat Camp, May 1954, Osborne’s Flat, via Yackandandah.

“Sidma Village”, in Ranchi District, India, The Canisian, Autumn 1954.

“An Essay on the Establishment of an Australian Peasantry”, by Fr. Bendeich, The Campion, New Series Vol.1, No.4, Sydney Dec. 1954 (cyclostyled).

“Obituary for Distributism”, by John Stanley, The Commonweal, 14 Jan. 1955.

“Study of a Community” (Coff’s Harbour), Rural Life, April 1955.

Pope Pius VII’s Address to the Farmer-Proprietors 18 May 1955.

Address of His Excellency the Most Reverend Romolo Carboni, Apostolic Delegate, to the N.C.R.M., at Convention, 24 April 1956.

“You Can’t Beat the Dutch at Land-Making” Harper’s, 1956.

Advocate, “Sydney Paper and Mr. Santamaria”, 10 May 1956.

University of New England new degree course in Agricultural Economics: notice, 1956.

N.C.R.M. Advanced Training School, 25-29 June 1956, and Preliminary Training School for Men and Women, 7-11 March 1960, programmes, the latter with handwritten comments; Study Guides in Christian Social Principles by Fr. Terence Warren, C.SS.R, Galong, 1959 (from the Library of the I.S.O).

Cyclostyled papers, n.d.: Community Organization” by E. Hennessy’; “Regionalis” anon., n.d.

Newscuttings on the Pope’s support for the Rural Movement and its leadership, Advocate, 25 Apr. 1957, 23 Oct. 1958; Tribune, 30 Oct. 1958.

“Alfalfa George, a rural pastor talks about God, the land and his people”, Jubilee Aug. 1960.

“Keeping the Faith in the Bush”, newscutting, Sydney 4 Aug. 1960.

Note of “good sample of how to attack a local community problem”, in A.J. Social Issues, Vol.1, No.2, Autumn 1962; Texts from the Gospel on the earth.

“An Indian Farmer in Australia” (for Private Circulation and not for publication in Australia), cyclostyled in 3 parts: 1, The Structure of Australian Rural Industries and Australia’s Export Needs; 2, Changing Patterns in Production and Land Usage; Agricultural Research and Limitations to Expansions; 3, The Altering Market Scene and Agriculture in Australia’s Economy.

A.B.C. Listening Groups “Let’s Face It” and “What a Community Club can do”, 30 Jan. script.

National Rural Life Conference (U.S.A.) order form for publications, etc.

Meeting papers (Fahey’s copies):

N.C.R.M. Organisation Chart; N.C.R.M. National Executive Agenda and papers, for 21 Feb. 1957; 20 Nov.1957; 28 May, 1958, 23 May 1961; 20 Feb., 28Aug. 1963. Minutes of National Executive meeting 21 Nov. 1962; “East Gippsland Regional Council Report”; Agenda for P.I.A.C. General Committee, 22 Oct. 1965; financial statements 1957-1958; Albury Convention, April 1958 tentative agenda; Constitution approved by the 16th National Convention 26, Apri1 1956; Notes originally prepared by Leaders’ Training School (Organizational Structure of N.C.R.M. to be studied in conjunction with the Constitution); and “Techniques of Action”. Resolutions not dealt with at the Convention and submitted to the National Executive; the 19th National Convention Sub-Committees, 1959, Recommendations to the National Executive; ms. notes on the back of a National Convention April 1961 agenda; Leaflet with programme for the 19th Annual National Convention 14-16 April 1959 at Albury; P.P.G.S. Annual Report 1960/61 with amendments; Proposed Constitution and Rules of the International Movement of the Adult Rural Apostolate (6 copies).

“The Meeting in Rome” (Report by Rev. Father H. Josko, who represented the N.C.R.M.).

Programme for National Convention 26-28 April 1966, Bendigo (2).