VISITING PRIESTS FROM AUSTRALIA

New Zealand Tablet, 25 February 1915, Page 17

VISITING PRIESTS FROM AUSTRALIA

' (From a correspondent.) Auckland, February 16. There arrived in Auckland to-day from Sydney a party of nine priests by the Riverina on a tour of Njw Zealand. The party comprised Rev. Fathers Michael Rohan, John A. Roche, and Hugh Conaghan, of Sydney ; Rev. Fathers Martin Hayes and John Nolan, of Gippsland, Victoria: Rev. Fathers Anthony Rohan and Maurice Byrnes, of Melbourne and Rev. P. Rohan, of Bendigo, and Rev. Father O’Laverty, of Maitland, N.S.W. Fathers Martin Hayes and John Nolan have just returned from a twelve months’ tour in America. Rev. Father John A. Roche is the chaplain of the Lewisham Hospital, Sydney, and is a first cousin of the Very Rev. Thomas Roche, C.SS.R., of Wellington. Rev. Fathers Maurice Byrnes and P. Rohan are about to leave on a twelve months’ holiday, in Europe. Rev. Michael Rohan, P.P., of Balmain, Sydney, is accompanying his two brothers on the tour in New Zealand. The party of nine priests leave Auckland on Friday for Rotorua, where they will spend a week before going on to Wellington,