MARIST BROTHERS LOOK TO FUTURE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 259, 23 January 1928, Page 8

MARIST BROTHERS LOOK TO FUTURE

NEW COLLEGE GROUtyQg TRAINING IjTdOMINk# Making preparations for the tnt the Marist Brothers are neroti^-J”** the purchase of 100 acres farfcftZ* college purposes at Shoal Bay. The area belongs to the Ro Catholic diocese, and the P to be authorised by saperiors* I** 1 ** Europe. A report that the reason lor th e chase of the site is to remora th Sacred Heart College from Ponsoebr is not confirmed by the authority, who are at present makirg additJa»l to ihe college at present Any question as to its probably not be seriously consider. ■ during the next ten years at least™ 1 There is a possibility that the Mark, Brothers will establish a boaidhfi school on the site, but the first mo, will probably be to establish a Seal/ Training CoUege, or Novitiate ProneCollege. There is at present a college at Tuakau. but students h IT . to go to Australia for their fi na i struction. The new St. Peter's Rural Traininr College for Maori boys at Northern, is expected to open in March, under the control of Fathers Spellings im Bruning, the latter of whom is relieving at Rotorua in the meantime. There is an area of 80 acres tend the new school, and there wfU he tnmediate accommodation for ( students, and later for some 50. Far* ing subjects will be taught primarily.