NEW CATHOLIC BOYS’ SCHOOL
Foundation Stone Ceremony
The new College of St. Thomas of Canterbury in Middlepark road, Upper Riccarton, will have its foundation stone blessed and laid by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Christchurch (the Most Rev. E. M. Joyce) on the afternoon of Low Sunday, April 24. It will eventually provide full primary and secondary education for boys in the area. The college will be staffed by the Christian Brothers, who recently formed a vice-province in New Zealand. The teaching order of Christian Brothers has been conducting schools in Otago for more than 60 years and it also staffs a large primary and secondary school for boys in Auckland.
The College of St. Thomas of Canterbury will initially cater for primary schoolboys only and six classrooms with auxiliary offices are being built in brick veneer, which will be opened next year. It is intended that a monastery for the Christian Brothers will be built next year. Later it is planned that the school should be developed into a full college for boys of all ages. There will be three brothers to begin the work and in the meantime they will be housed with the priest of the parish.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29179, 13 April 1960, Page 25
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