Meeanee

New Zealand Tablet, 25 April 1912, Page 31

Meeanee

(From an occasional correspondent;) ,• Very Rev. Dean Smyth, ;S.M., whose health of late has not been quite;: satisfactory, is enjoying a month's rest at Rotorua. •' r - -■'.

- His Grace the Archbishop/is understood : to have expressed his desire to see the church, presbytery, and school removed to a more central location to meet the ever-growing needs of the Taradale, Greenmeadows, and Puketapu portion of the parish, i The suggestion is under consideration. . ~ - ' ■■-;-.■_; = Lordship Bishop Verdon spent a few days : at the college last week. > His Lordship expressed himself as highly delighted with the institution and its beautiful surroundings, which speaks volumes for the unflagenergy of the Very Rev. Dean Smyth, " S.M., who has brought the recently-undertaken removal, to so successful an issue. His Lordship left for Auckland on Wednesday last. -:v "• "■ _ / ■■'■;; ■>: For many months the ladies of Meeanee .parish have been zealously engaged in preparing for the Easter fair in aid of the presbytery building fund. The bazaar, which was opened by Mr. J. Vigor Brown, M.P., was held -in the new Taradale Town Haß;/ and v had a phenomenally successful season of ten days. The results are; said to be most; gratifying; something : like £6OO being the probable proceeds. The ladies are deserving of high commendation for the earnest manner in which they applied themselves to the work in hand, their efforts, apart from the financial success, 1 providing a veritable feast of sights most pleasant to behold. $ The Very Rev. Dean Grogan, S.M. ? ! who personally supervised the arrangements, is to be congratulated on the fine result. The following clergy were present during the fair:—Very Rev. Dean Grogan, Rev. Fathers O'Sullivan and Herbert (Napier), Very Rev. Dean Smyth; and Rev. Fathers McDonnell andTymons, S.M., of St. Mary's Seminary. " - • -*+i