Community Of Sacred Name Plans Move

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31231, 1 December 1966, Page 22

Community Of Sacred Name Plans Move

The Community of the Sacred Name, the only New Zealand Anglican community for women, is planning to move from the Barbadoes street site it has occupied since 1895. The Diocesan Standing Committee has granted the Community permission to purchase just over three acres of glebe land in St. Peter’s parish, Upper Riccarton. Glebe land is land left in perpetuity to the church, and is not generally sold, said the vicar of St. Peter’s, the Rev. J. F. B. Keith. The three-acre site, which will be purchased by the Community for £5250, is part of an area of more than 25 acres left to the church about 100 years ago. Most of it is leased for home sites and used for parish buildings. The Community would build on the new site when funds were available, said the Mother Superior, Mother Zoe. It was decided to find a new site as the present one was zoned in an industrial area, the Community had been refused permission to build replacement buildings for old wooden structures, and the proposed motorway was expected to run very close to the present buildings. Estimates for the refused extensions on the present site were £120,000, and it was expected that the new community building would cost at least that amount, Mother Zoe said. Although no definite date could yet be set, it was hoped that the move would be within four or five years, but it would be affected by the development of the motorway plans, Mother Zoe said. The present Community buildings on the one-acre Bar-

badoes street site is home to 36 sisters, trainees, and students from the Pacific Islands.