Timaru

New Zealand Tablet, 19 June 1913, Page 24

Timaru

(From our own correspondent.) June 16. Mr. W. Angland, Mayor of Timaru, was sworn in last week as a Justice of the Peace for his term of office. Rev. Brother. Clement, Assistant-Provincial of the Marist Brothers, paid a visit to the monastery on Saturday, and left on this morning. Mr. M. J. O’Brien, a former pupil of the local Catholic school, and later a student at St. Patrick's College, Wellington, was admitted last week as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. \ St. Anne’s Guild held the first of a series of socials last week in the parish Hall. There was a fair attendance, and an enjoyable evening was spent. Mrs. Mangos looked after the musical portion of the entertainment. The girls’ school will be examined by the Education Board inspector on Wednesday and Thursday next, and the boys’ school on Friday, The Young Men’s Club are having a highly successful season. Wednesday evening last was an ‘Open night,’ and the hall was filled to overflowing with parishioners and friends of the members. The programme for the evening was a mock bankruptcy meeting. Mr. Hyland made an efficient deputy official assignee, and Mr. Toner as the bankrupt, Mr. M. J. O’Doyle as the latter’s solicitor, and Messrs. O’Brien, Duggan, Quinn, Roach, and Yenning (2), took the leading roles.