A GOOD WORK

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2265, 26 September 1914, Page 6

A GOOD WORK

OPENING OF THE NEW CRECHE< v In tho sphere of charitable endear*, our in Wellington there is no iiame better known, or more genuinely respected than, that of the Rev. Mother Mary Joseph Aubert. Though she has now been away from the Dominion for nearly a year, and was, at last advices, still at Home, her manifold good works continue to flourish in her absence, to the help and comfort of many a poor soul who finds the world a vale of pain and sorrow. The Rev. Mother was the first person to establish that beneficent French idea in New Zealand known as tho creche. This, as most of us know, is a place where mothers who are by force of circumstances' compelled to work during the day time, may leave their babies with every confidence that they will be carefully and compassionately tended until they are called for in the evening. It is about twelve years since tho crecho was established in Wellington, and it is only comparatively recently that the idea has been taken up. in other centres. Now the Rev. Mother has been enabled to erect a soundlybuilt modern creche, one that is moant to endure, and planned in a manner that conduces to convenience and health. The new building is'to be formally opened by Coadjutor-Arcln bishop O'Shca to-morrow afternoon, which interesting ceremony tho publiq are invited to view.

I All interesting fact in connection with 1 tho Whito Island explosion is contained in a letter from Mr. E. Lyon, Marton. Ho states that on the Monday following t!ie eruption ho was cycling on tho JManawahe Road, between Matata and tho Main Rotorua Road, when he continually noticed (strong sulphurous odours arising from the bush. There are no thermal springs in the vicinity, and the source, of the odour was a mystery till. news of tho. explosion was hoard. The country that the Matawahe Road traverses is of very high altiture, and tho fumes were evidently carried across from the iskind- •.