NEW CONVENT HOME
OPENING IN WELLINGTON Press Association ' WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The new convent building attached to the Home of Compassion at Island Bay was officially opened this afternoon by Archbishop O’Shea. The building, which is practically completed, cost £25,000, of which £IB,OOO is already in hand. Archbishop O’Shea said Roman Catholic people were engaged in a very large building programme and buildings to the value of over £2C / ',OOO were being erected in the Well: gton Diocese during this year. An institution such as the Home of Compassion was a concrete expression of solicitude for the poor, needy and unfortunate. . Mr. R. McKeen, M.P., said the work of the home was undenominational in that no differentiation was made as to the religion of the inmates. The home had nothing to equal it throughout New Zealand and Australia.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1074, 11 September 1930, Page 16
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