Masterton

New Zealand Tablet, 21 December 1911, Page 2575

Masterton

(From our own correspondent.) December 11. The annual combined picnic of Catholic schools -of the Masterton and Pahiatua districts will probably be held about the second week in January. Very Rev. Dean McKenna, on behalf of St. Patrick’s Church committee, has just completed th e purchase of the property known as the Masterton Fishponds, comprising twelve acres of land and the building thereon. This property, which is situated right opposite St. Bride’s Convent, has been used for many years by the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, and very few visitors to Masterton missed the opportunity of being shown over the hatcheries -and ponds. The Very Rev. Dean is to be congratulated on his foresight in securing the property. I understand that the property will be used principally for the convent and school. His Lordship Bishop Carroll, of Lismore, New. South Wales, and Right Rev. Mgr. O’Haran, of Sydney, paid a brief visit to Dean McKenna at Masterton, arriving on Saturday and leaving for Wellington on Monday. During their stay they motored through the South Wairarapa, and Bishop Carroll, who takes a keen interest in dairying, coming as he does from one of the biggest dairying centres in Australia, was delighted with the country he saw. Bishop Carroll comes from the same town in Ireland as Dean McKenna.