MARIST BROTHERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24, 30 January 1911, Page 3

MARIST BROTHERS.

OPENING OF THE TE ARO SCHOOL. His Grace Archbishop Redwood blessed and declared open yesterday the ! Marist Brothers' new school for ths Te Aro parish. The school is situated on a rise between Adelaide-road and Tas-man-streel, and is in brick, with cement embellishments. It will accommodate some 300 boys, and will begin its work with about 200 scholars. Brother Justin, will have charge of the school. After the religious ceremony his Grace gave a stirring address on 'Catholic aims and ideals in education. Ho was preceded by the "Vicar-General, Father O'Shea, who gave an 'interesting account of the development of the Catholic' schools in Wellington. Referring to the deep interest, which hit, Grace took in the cause of education, he said his chief, care had been to plant schools in every 1 part of the archdiocessi Ths results eloquently testified to his foresight and wisdom. Father O'Shea then referred to the necessity of the new school in the direction whence population had spread. The work owed much to the generosity of Catholics, who had willingly shoufdered the burden in this matter of education. The land for tho school had cost some JJ&iot). With the aid of collectors, who had gone from house to house, £650 had been raised ; Mr. Maurice O'Connor, Mr. Martin Kennedy, and an r.ronymous donur had between them given £369 to purchase an additional piece of land included in the total costfor the site above stated. The contract price for the building was £3374. On the Botiicdtt-street property a loan of £4000 had been raised, £2000 of which was to be applied to the Te Aro School and £2000 to the school to be built at Thorndon. Mr. Martin Kennedy had given, in addition to former donations, £50, and Mrs. Martin Kennedy also £50, and Mr. J. S. Swan, the architect of the school, half his fee, representing £42, as a donation to the woik. It rested with the people as a whole to give practical support to the great and important work which was so dear to the heart of his Grace the Archbishop, and so essential in tho Miterests of the y cung and of the Christian faith. Mr. Kennedy, who followed the Archbishop, reminded the assembly that his Grace, in his zeal for Catholic education in Wellington, was making a great sacrifice, inasmuch as he was postponing building the cathedral until all ths schools in the archdiocese vcro established and well equipped. Father O'Shea made special reference to the excenent work of tha architect r i/r Jt S- Swan ), ths contractor (iui: J. Moffat), and the clerk of works (Mr Waterhause). The clergy and visitors then made a thorough inspection of the building, and expressed themselves in terms of admiration A it* amplitude, lighting and venMation, and the, facilities in the matter of class-rooms and other arrangements for imparting a gtfod education under modern conditions. A collection towards liquidating the debt on the school realised £300 There is a debt of £4600 on the undertaking, upon £2600 of which interest has to be paid. «