Wanganui

New Zealand Tablet, 5 June 1919, Page 21

Wanganui

(From our own co r dent.) May 29. The 1,1.A.C.H. Society has started on a series of progressive euchre parties, and intends to hold them fortnightly at the Villa Maria. The main object is to establish a fund to provide a scholarship, open to the children of the parish, and then of course, there is the secondary and natural result of bringing members of the congregation in touch with one another. Good prizes are given each time, and the grand prizes, to be awarded at the end of the season, will be worthy of the best players. The third of the series was held on Wednesday night, and so far prizes have been won by Mrs. Smith and Miss O’Neill for the ladies, Mr. C. Trainor and one of a bunch of three who have to play off again, for the gentlemen. In addition to the card parties, there will be a dance on every alternate Wednesday at the Druids’ Hall, for the same fund. The society has decided finally on the Roll of Honor, which will contain 50 names, and will be unveiled at a Return Reunion to be held when all the brothers come back. The roll will be a handsome one, having the names of all the soldier brothers inscribed on the marble, and will be an enduring record of the part played in the great war by the members of the local branch of the H.A.C.B. Society. Recent arrivals from the Front are Brothers Father Moloney, J. W. E. Miles, W. E. Quirk, J. P. Kenny, T- D. Gaffaney, 11. W. Brown, J. IT. Richardson, C. 11. O. Cock, and J. M. P. Dowdall. A good many still remain on the other side, helping to obtain the peace we all hope for. Father Bowden, S.M., who has been ill for some time, is just now in Belverdale Private Hospital, having undergone to-day a very serious operation, So far

results are ■satisfactory, and we all sincerely hope that Father Bowden will make as speedy a recovery as his critical condition will allow. k , ; V -V -Jf.i-. ■ .. g-jj :■ I The cool grass tennis courts and pebbly I paths;-* at the convent, so pleasant in summer, but in winter a: delusion and-a snare, are being asphalted. Wintergames and sports, therefore, will be gone on with much more conveniently.