DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLVIII, Issue 35, 1 September 1921, Page 27

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

His Lordship the Bishop, Right Rev. Dr. Whyte, will be on episcopal visitation at Gore on Sunday next. Very Rev. Father Coffey, Adm.; and Mr. D. L. Poppelwell (Gore) were passengers by the north express on Tuesday morning to attend, as delegates from the Dunedin Diocesan Council of the Catholic Federation, the annual conference of the Dominion Council, which opened at Wellington on Wednesday.

A progressive 500 and euchre tournament will be held in St. Joseph’s Hall, Rattray Street, on Monday evening, September 12, in aid of the Kaikovai Catholic school grounds’ improvement fund. A musical programme will be rendered, and together with additional attractions an enjoyable function is assured. It is hoped this effort of the Kaikorai parishioners will be fully supported by the people of the city, and thus, by united action, help a very worthy undertaking.

The annual election of office-bearers in connection with St. Joseph’s Cathedral Sodality, of Children of Mary took place on last Sunday evening, Very Rev. Father Coffey (spiritual director) presiding, and resulted as follows: President, Miss M. Carter; vice-president, Miss M. Dunne; first and second assistants respectively, Miss N. Knott and Miss M. Lynch; secretary, Miss H. McQuillan; councillors, Misses J. Hughes, A. Brady, and N. Moroney. A retreat, to be conducted by a Marist Missioner, is to begin on the 19th inst.

The Sisters of Mercy, South Dunedin, desire to tender their gratitude to “W.D.” for a donation of £2 to St. Vincent’s Orphanage, and also to “One who asks the orphans’ prayers” for a donation of £l.