REDEMPTORIST MISSIONS IN NEW ZEALAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 21 February 1907, Page 13

REDEMPTORIST MISSIONS IN NEW ZEALAND.

. Some of the Wellington Redemplorist Fathers (writes our travelling' correspondent) have ' recently been - engaged .in strenuous missionary work along the line of - the Midland Railway. On January 27 the ~ Very Rev. '."Father Clune' opened a mission among the navvies at the. ; Makatote Viaduct — that great and difficult engineering achievement which extends to a length of 860 feet ' and~ .'soars to a height of 300 feet above the deep cleft or '.ravine below. The mission was very well "attended. To Mr. Turn-bull (overseer) and to Mrs. Turnbull Father Clune'was indebted for -generous and 'graceful, hospitality and much' kindly- and helpful .aid in connection with ' the mission-. Mrs. Turnbull presiaed^at the organ. The mission lasted four days, ending on January 31. On the > same evening Father ■ Clune began a mission in the' hall ,at Raurimu, which- is the present terminus of the Mid-

land Railway on the Auckland side of the line. Near •Raurimu" is the noted ' spiral ' where the line describes 'a "figure 8 in its ascent to higher ground. Rasurimu ,is at present a canvas town of some 1200 inhabitants. The mission continued there till- the Sunday morning after its opening. ' The attendance was very satisfactory, and at Makatote jyid Raurimu 80 "per cent, of the -Catholics approached the Sacraments.

On February 24 the Rev, Father " McDermott opens a mission at Inglewood. He will there be joined by ~ the Very Rev. Father Clune, at the close of his engagements- Nin the 'Masterton ' parish. Later on thfc , Fathers will open a mission in Greymouth, and on March 17 in Parnell and Newmarket (Auckland)..