NEW CATHOLIC SCHOOL

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 218, 15 June 1925, Page 6

NEW CATHOLIC SCHOOL

OPENED BY ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD. Yesterday afternoon. His Grace Archbishop h’edwo l d blessed and,, declared open tho n-w Roman Catholic day school for girs and small boys at Aro Street. Despite tho extremely unpleasant weather there was a largo attendance of those int-rcslod. The Rev. Father Mahoney, in thanking the Archbishop, said that the school was in a most centrally situated position for the people of St. Mary of iiie Angels' Church. The. land had been purchased for 4:5250, while ths building cost in tho vicinity of .(,‘37(10. The school would bo open for- children on Wednesday. Archbishop Redwood said it ;yive him great pleasure to open a 'new Catholic school. A day wan'd come when tho Caiho’i-s of Now Zealand would b* judged by their educal <ma' institutions, fl was truly won'orful v hat the Catholics of the Dominion had done in the way of building schools. Tho great sin of tho nee was (he apostasy of God—people did n I “ant Him —Let ii vns tho aim of f'c Catholic schools to educate the children in an atmosphere of re, igion. Archb’shnp O'Shea pointed nut that in England and nr st parts of the Empire, religious cduoati n was helped by the State, and expressed the hope that m the near future Now Zealand would also do so. .Doan Regnault, Father Cullen, and Father Murphy also took part in the ceremony.