MARIST BROTHERS’ SCHOOL
Opening In Palmerston Next Weekend Dominion Special Service PALMERSTON N., January 25. Next weekend the Very Rev. Monsignor T. F. Connolly. Wellington, vicargeneral of the diocese, will perform the opening ceremony of St. Patrick’s High School in Palmerston North, which is the fifth secondary school in the city. Established by the Marist Brothers’ order, the school, which is situated in Grey Street, has been completed at a cost of £2OOO, which has been raised locally. Additions will be made to it as it develops. Designed on the latest open-air principles, the wooden building, which faces Grey Street, at present consists of two classrooms with all facilities. Sixty pupils from the Manawatu district will attend the school when it is opened, and for a start instruction will be confined to Forms 1,2 and 3. the curriculum being extended for higher secondary education as these classes pass on. Formerly in charge of Sacred Heart College, Auckland, for four years, Brother Tnrcisius. who has been engaged in organising work for the past year, will be principal of the new school. He will be assisted by Bro. Bernard. <>l 'lie Marist Brothers’ School. Auckland.
The new school is the fourlwiiili <<• or established in the Dominion by the Muriat Brothers’ order-
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 104, 26 January 1939, Page 16
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