DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 1 May 1913, Page 25

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By telegraph, from our own correspondent.)

April 28.

Preparations are being made for bazaars in St. Benedict's and the Sacred Heart parishes. . ' -

Very Rev. Father Buckley states that the new branch of the H.A.C.B. Society at Otahuhu promises to be a pronounced success. '

Rev. Father Williams, when in town last week, stated it was the intention of himself and his parishioners to establish a branch of the Hibernian Society at Taumarunui.

-.;- Mr. J. W. Callaghan, well known in Hibernian circles in Wellington, was here last week in order to take his son, now convalescent, back to Wellington. While in Auckland he was shown round by the district officers of the society.

Yesterday morning at 8 o'clock his Lordship the Bishop celebrated Mass at the Cathedral, when the members of the various conferences of the St. Vincent de Paul Society in and around the city received Holy Communion. ':'-"•■■

Very Rev. Father Roche, C.SS.R., who has been conducting missions at Thames and Waihi, will arrive in Auckland on Tuesday afternoon. On that evening he will address the Holy Family Confraternity, and on Wednesday he will leave for New Plymouth.