FIRE-SWEPT PARISH, OHAKUNE
Our people, feeling the need of Catholic education for their children, determined to provide them "with a Catholic school. This year a large and commodious school (where more than 80 Catholic children are now taught) was erected at a cost of £I6OO, and a convent was purchased at a cost of £l4oo—that is, a total of £3OOO. Our people have subscribed generously, but they are not rich in this world's goods, and they could only reduce the debt by £BOO. £2200 still remains as a debt. Since the erection of school and convent the terrible bush fires of last March swept over the district, inflicting heavy loss on some of our pe*ople. Moreover, we have no church and no presbytery yet. We are badly off. Hence we appeal to the benevolent throughout the Dominion to help us to keep the Faithi in this backblocks and fire-swept parish. We are runin this backblocks and fire-swept parish. Donations will be gratefully received and personally acknowledged. Address Father Guinane, Ohakune.
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New Zealand Tablet, 13 March 1919, Page 13
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