Feilding

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 23, 11 June 1908, Page 14

Feilding

(From an occasional correspondent.)

Owing to the generosity of Mrs. Johnston and family, Feilding Catholics will soon be in possession of one of the most up-to-date and beautiful Catholic schools in the Dominion. The building will have four large class-rooms, separated by a spacious corridor. The design is a very handsome one, and the building will have a frontage of 7Gft to Derby street. The structure will *be carried out in pressed bricks, relieved with cement facings, cornices, gables, etc. The interior fittings, ceilings, etc., will be of picked red pine. Tenders are now being called for the work, and it is intended to have it finished by the end of the year. The estimated cost is over £3000. Mr. E. W. G. Coleridge, of Wellington, is architect for the building. A more fitting memorial could -hardly be devised, as the late Hon. W. W. Johnston always took a keen interest in the education question, and the late hongentleman continually advocated the claims of Catholic education both in Parliament and out of it. We are fortunate in having the good Sisters of St. Joseph to attend to the education of our children, and^Mrs. Johnston and family's generosity in providing a school building will better enable them to exercise their talents in the training of the children committed to their care. _______