Diocesan news

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLIX, Issue 40, 12 October 1922, Page 23

Diocesan news

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON (From our , own correspondent.) mi Rev. Father Smyth, Adm., and - the of Thorndon are making every endeavor to raise the necessary funds for completing their hall. Various functions I£e being held every week and a big effort was made ™ rmuJr tl i r rp ay afternoon, at: St. Mary’s convent grounds Guildford - Terrace, where a garden fete realised the handsome sum of . £l5O. Last Wednesday . evening Mrs lan Duncan organised a, very successful concert at the Concert Chamber of the .L own Hall, which was well filled and should result.in a good sum being added to the hall fund It is anticipated that the hall will be sufficiently advaS for “ oi>eni,,g b “ V th the corresponding business at the stalls and sid? shows has resulted in the bazaar being a financial succSs' Entei tainments each evening were provided by Mr j' Knowsley’s School of Dancing, Miss PbvlHc VVh J * CaMonian Society's, Class, 1& Kahfee^'o’BAn Liberian Minstrels, _ and St. Anne’s School Mr Res Dwyer s Orchestra and the Irish Pipe Band also assiS/ riieie was, : too, an exciting tug-of -wax* contest i, proved a good attraction. The 1 stallholders were “AH Rations, Mesdames Wylie and Giles- “/polorui'n >) nr 11 ■ J- E Gamble, Mack, and lS ; mT otidrJkk T T Kiosk, Mesdames Maloney, Sninway and Gibbons; director of entertainments, Mr - T Murphy: honorary secretary, Mr. W. H., Giles/ - murpny, Tho Marist Brothers’ Old, Bovs’ Rimhv fbAtWali ■ completed the football season, by'a smoke contort ' irf the Dommion Farmers’ Institute Hal on last sSty "vln! mg. Iha function was most successful, about 200 persons being present. Mr. L. Sievers presided,-various toasts were pleasure. of 'the Ssion"™* 1 S’*#™** the ohaißol St fatr&Sch the past twelve months, was recently made -the recipient of a past-president s collar and framed- certificate in recognition of Ins services to the. society.. Bro. P J o’xrfnl his successor . in; the chair, ' made the presentation, and voiced the .members appreciation of Bro. Taylor’s : services* ;, , + The Marist j Missionary Fathers will conduct missions m. this city commencing on Sunday, 15th inst if A Fi-aucis de Sales’ Church, Island Bay. At the conclusion of in that parish they will commence one At St...Joseph’s. Church,. Buckle,Street. - . , : ; Rev. . Father Saunderson/ who has been seriously ill has sufficiently- recovered to > enable him : to proceed ‘ nitM an p for treatment at the Mater. Miserieordiae Hospital. : Rev... Father■ McManus accompanied him to Auck- ;;' A The: condition of both- the Very Rev Dean ‘ and his successor in Wellington South (Rev. man), who also -became (seriously j ill, lias. T am pleased to say, very much ( improved. VI; : / . P a • wU : '(Continued on page. 27.) ' *