ST. JOSEPH'S'ORPHANAGE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1003, 19 December 1910, Page 7

ST. JOSEPH'S'ORPHANAGE.

' CEREMONY AT UPPER HUTT. Yesterday, afternoon, his Grice Archbishop Redwood, visited Hutt in order to lay the foundation stone of the new Catholic Orphanage, which is beiDg. built in that'township to replace the institution that has been conducted, during the- past- sixty years, in Wellington. In addition to the Archbishop, there were present the Very Rev. Father O'Shea, F.M., Vicar-Generai, and the Rev.. Father Hdckson, legal manager of St.. Joseph's Orphanago The parishioners of Upper Hu.tt attended the function in large numbern, and also in attendance were about sixty children, who will bo tho first occupants of.the new building. They aro at. pre. sent in temporary, quarters not far tfrom the orphanage, which is to be their ffuture home..

; When the Archbishop had pronounced (the prescribed, prayer, tho commemora-j-tive stone was lowered into position, land declared duly laid. His Grace then jaddressed the assemblage; remarking ithat this ceremony was an important one for the .Catholic body, and indicated >a further step in the advancement of -Catholic, interests in. tho district. With •a. Sisterhood in residence in their midst it should not be difficult for them to set about tlio establishment of a Catholic school. The time, also was not iar "distant when it would bo necessary to constitute Upper Hutt.a distinct parish, and to station a resident priest there.. In both of these matters much would depend on tho zeal and activity of the members of the congregation. ; A handsome trowel, used by the : Archbishop in laying the - commemorative stone, was tho gift of the contractor, Mr. H. M. Davis... '