ST. PATRICK’S COLLEGE

Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1930, Page 6

ST. PATRICK’S COLLEGE

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Telegraph—Per Press Association,)

WELLINGTON. April 26

The-.fon-.i'i.dat[on, stoije of, {the. -.new. St. -Patrick's ..Ciollqgtr.at SiJverstiieam, Uppdr •Hutt, iSvilji be. laid,, to-njprrow by Archbishop Redwood. .. assisted ' by, Arch hi shop i. O'Shea j and ,! Pro,ln tes I rom Auckland puiiUDuiiediii. Old-, boys will be present from all parts of. New Zealand and Australia.

Archbishop Redwood laid the foundation stone of the present college forty-six years ago. It will be retained as a day school, as a large increase has recently take place in day scholars.

The contract price of the building is £76,000 without the chapel which will'cost £13,000 more.

A large area has been secured lor grounds which will abut on to Mutt river wul - have clumps of original to tarn and beech forest still standing.

FOUNDATIQN LAID

WELLINGTON, April 27

A The ceremony of the blessing and laying of the foundation - stone ol the new St. Patrick’s College at Silverstream took place to-day. There was present a distinguished gathering ol relates, clergy, and friends of the College. All the members of the Catholic 'hierarchy of New Zealand (Archbishop Redwood and Archbishop O’Shea, of AVellingtoii ; Bishop Brodic, of Christchurch ; Bishop Whyte, of Dunedin ; and Bishop Liston, of Auckland) were present.

The ceremony was unique inasmuch as that Archbishop Redwood, who laid the foundation stone of the present St, Patrick’s (bilge in AVellingtoii fortv-isix years ago, and who is now in his ninety-second year, laid' the foundation s'toue of the New St. Patrick’s. The gathering included Old Boys ol the College from all parts of New Zealand, and from Australia.

The present St. Patrick’s College, in Cambridge Terrace, will he retained as a day school. A feature o’l the progress of this College in recent years has been the remarkable increase in the number of day scholars, of whom there are now about two hundred.

The contract price for the new building is £76,020, while the chapel will cost £13,00 additional. It is hoped, however, to proceed with the chapel before the present contract is completed, and this will mean an additional £13,000. The chapel is to he a memorial to the deceased Old Boys especially to those who gave their lives in the Great AVar.

The site is to he one of the finest in Now Zealand. The College authorities secured 880 acres perhaps the finest property in the ITutt Valley, bounded by the Uore-

taunga Golf Links on the north, and tho beautiful Wellington City Council Alenioriai Park on the south. The luiildings are being erected on a terrace near tho main road, in the centre of a smiling plain, surrounded by low forested hills. Grounds if or football, cricket, tennis, and golf will he laid out before the end of this year.