Ashburton

New Zealand Tablet, 20 March 1913, Page 51

Ashburton

(From our own correspondent.) March 12. Mr. W. J. Cunningham (president) and Mr. D. , McDonnell will represent the Catholic Club at the conference of Federated Catholic Clubs to be held in Christchurch at Easter. The weekly meetings of the Catholic Young Men's Club continue to be well attended. The programmes submitted are varied and interesting, the borough estimates, as brought down for adoption by Mr. D. McDonnell at the last meeting, being productive of very keen discussion. A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. McDonnell for his work in preparing the estimates. % After months of silent working by. a large number of ladies in this parish the results of their labors were manifest on Saturday last when the Mayor opened the Catholic bazaar in the presence of a large gathering of people. Very Rev. Dean O'Donnell was amongst those present at the opening, and the successful manner in which the affair has been carried through speaks well for his management. The attendance nightly has been good, and no doubt the great interest taken in the tug-of-war was mainly responsible for this. The arranging of the different stalls was indeed creditable, to those in charge, and from all sides the bazaar was classed as the best from every standpoint that has yet been held in this town. A statement as to the net proceeds is not yet available, but a goodly sum will go to the extinguishing of the debt, as a result of the generous support of the Ashburton public, and the self-sacrificing work of our Catholic townswomen.

The stallholders and their assistants were as follow Ladies' Club —Mesdames Meeching and Cunningham, Misses McCormick (3), Bradley, Fitzgerald,, Nealon, McSherry, O'Connor, Shrimpton, Simpson,' Campbell, and White. Convent stall— J. R. Smith, Misses Buckley, Hyland, Moore, O'Kane, Mary Lysaght, Leddy (2), Moriarty (2), Brown, McLeod, and Bradley (2). Jumble stall —Misses May Quigley and Grace Boyle. Floral stall Mesdames Cooper and Welsh, and Misses Sewell, Walsh, Cooper, and Buckley. Post Office Miss Murphy. '_•.'■; Refreshment booth—Mesdames Soal and Hannigan, and Misses Soal, Hyland, Madden, and Cunningham (2). •;

Bran tub Mr. Charlie Hannigan. '- Hibernian stall Mesdames Madden, Devahe, J. O'Grady, Groghan, James McCormack, Buchanan (Christchurch), and Miss A. Nelson." Sweets stall —Misses Hicks, Harman, Bradley, Hannigan, Barber, and Riordan.