DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 49, 5 December 1907, Page 14

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.) . November 29. , The annual examination of the boys at Takapuna Orphanage took place yesterday. Auckland city will in a few weeks rejoice in the possession of municipal electric light. It is the opinion of his Lordship Bishop Neligan (Anglicata) that internally St. .-Patrick's Cathiefdral is now the finest church in Auckland city. ■ The annual \ concert in connection -with the Marist Brothers' school takes place in St. Jaines'^ Hall on Thursday, December 9, that in connection with the Sis- • f s^ of n-; Joseph to-night in St. Benedict's Ball,- and* of the Sisters of Mercy, Hobson street", next Thursday evening in the Federal Hall. • "+U £tAvondale last Sunday Mass was celebrated - in the Public School, theiise of which was obtained through - the kindness of Mr. John Bollard, M.H.R., chairman of ■ tne local school committee. There was a \ery good congregation present. After -Mass. a meeting of the congregation was held, tfie Very Rev. Father Gillan V G presiding. He briefly stated that the object of the" meeting was to take _ steps for -the erection of a church -at Ayondale. . That it was needed .was amply demonstrated by the large congregation which was x present, 'and also -by the difficulty experienced in obtaining a buildusS\^}? h to celebrate Mass. . His idea was that a brick building would vbe more economical, and certainly O°r ? rtv laStm % U f™* hßn ™ vited sWestions. ml ?h? h S 7^ OVed , a , a(1 - Mr ' Denis 'seconded, « That a church bte erected in Avondale, and that '■ Messrs. E Mahoney land Sons be asked to prepare plans,, etc., and gitve an approximate cost of the buiLdine: ' The he taiLEf ? gree ?^°; J ather GiUan announced that he. intended to celebrate Mass at Avondale on Sunday December 29 whereupon it was decided to hold anothlr meeting on that day, at which Mr. Mahoney's plans would be presented. The following committee was -3S? ft n?£ po y it< ** connßctSon -with the undertaking,--, - JSiert m/ 7 ffiSr 00 * 3 *',?"* Rev ' + Fath^ r Gillal(Treasurer), Mr. Hardiman (hon. secretary), and Messrs SSJSi- ° rmO^' Neville ' Q uinliv^n, and Keogh The committee subsequently rret and arranged pfeliminar? SfthJ? om he t rty ' ?? te af <thanks t0 tfr Very Rev Father Gillan brought the meeting to a close It is to hh ° P S d - that now tha * erection of the church has been decided upon the project -will be car-^ ried out without unnecessary- delay.

Mr. Arthur Chamberlain, chairman of Kynochs, Liird-